Hostage-taking and Kidnapping Terror in the Contemporary Operational
Environment is a supplemental handbook to the US Army Training and Doctrine
Command capstone handbook guide on terrorism, TRADOC G2 Handbook No.
1, A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. Understanding
terrorism and actions such as kidnapping or hostage-taking spans foreign and
domestic threats in a complex and uncertain array of threats in the contemporary
operational environment (COE).