A szimbolikus helyszín mint a kritikus infrastruktúra lehetséges eleme

Abstract

Military warfare has been changed. Terrorist attacks, as a type of asymmetric warfare are present in Europe, which anticipates the warfare has completely transformed. Earlier events in the Middle East indicated that the conventional warfare, enemy versus enemy or technology versus technology is over. Critical infrastructure is the collection of facilities, networks and organizations, or parts of them, which facilitate a country’s society and economy. Destruction or loss of services has negative consequences for the society, country or even at international scale. The increasing occurrence of attacks involving civilian crowds, point out, that international, European and national scale regulations formulated fifteen or ten years ago have not followed the changing circumstances. While the majority of attacks are committed against crowds, and put in effect in large places, the definition of critical infrastructure must be extended. The common feature of these new attack targets is their civilian function, they are easy targets, are capable to be used by a large number of people, the assault results in public outcry and panic. These outrages have high indirect impact on the functioning of the country, economy and society, have a large media attention, and the victims' vast majority are innocent civilians. The new targets of attacks are the symbolic sites, which could worthily become parts of the critical infrastructure due to their vulnerability and strong social impact.