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Terrorist cells are modeled as finite partially ordered sets. This paper determines the structure of the terrorist cell most likely to remain intact if a subset of its members is captured at random, provided that the cell has a single leader and no member has more than two immediate subordinates.
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Farley, J.D. (2012). How Al Qaeda Can Use Order Theory to Evade or Defeat U.S. Forces: The Case of Binary Posets. In: Kranakis, E. (eds) Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications. Mathematics in Industry, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30904-5_14
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