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Preface. Figures. Summary. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations and acronyms. Chapter One: Introduction. About This Study. About This Report. Chapter Two: What is organizational learning? Organizational learning as a four-part process. The need to combine explicit and tacit knowledge. Different forms of organizational learning. Chapter Three: The need to learn in order to change effectively. Development, improvement, and employment of new weapons or tactics. Improving skills with current weapons or tactics. Collecting and utilizing intelligence information. Thwarting efforts to combat terrorist activities. Preserving organizational capabilities despite the loss of group members. Chapter Four: How understanding terrorist group learning can aid in combating terrorism. Detecting terrorist groups' efforts to change. Anticipating the outcome of terrorist groups' efforts to change. Acting more effectively to thwart terrorist efforts. Chapter Five: Limitations of an organizational-learning-based approach for analysis and operational planning in combating terrorism. The need to understand terrorist group structure and membership. Lack of data on terrorist group learning processes. The nature of learning models. Difficulties in measuring the results of learning. Understanding the contribution of learning ability to specific terrorist operations. Chapter Six: Conclusions. Assessing the threat posed by individual terrorist groups and understanding their behavior. Developing and implementing effective counterstrategies. Allocating resources and developing metrics to assess the effectiveness of efforts to combat terrorism. Concluding remarks. Appendix. Overview of the case study. Groups. References.