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Soft target

A "soft target" is a person, thing, or location that is easily accessible to the general public and relatively unprotected, making it vulnerable to military strikes, terrorism, or crimes such as vehicle-ramming attacks or mass shootings. By contrast, a "hard target" is heavily defended or not accessible to the general public.

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Soft target

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples88
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

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Soft target

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related to Bibliography · 67
Soft target → Archived, Assessing, Attack, Beare, Bennett, Boston Globe, Brian, Chances Improving, Clark Kent, Dan, Encyclopedia, Ervin, Forest, Fred, Games, Girginov, Glenn, Greenwood, Handbook, Homeland Security
related to history · 12
Soft target → Clark Kent Ervin, Contra, For, In, John Galvin, London's Metropolitan Police Service, Military, Of, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Summer Olympics, Terrorist, The
related to Definition · 5
Soft target → Examples, Hard, However, Soft, The
related to External links · 3
Soft target → The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2

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targets soft target hard general military attacks public vulnerable accessible terrorism 2012 1987 protecting 2006 making contrast definition civilian examples

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
vehicle-ramming attacks or mass shootingsinstance ofor crimes0.80text
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyLock-green0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyLock-gray-alt-20.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyLock-red-alt-20.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyWikisource-logo0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyBennett0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyBrian0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyUnderstanding0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyAssessing0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyResponding0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyTerrorism0.60section
Soft targetrelated to BibliographyProtecting Critical Infrastructure0.60section

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