Quote Originally Posted by mashamania
Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
Terrorism is efforts of a person or a group of persons directed to force local population into obedience through fear. (that's a more or less strict definition of the word).
Perhaps you're being too technical with the word "terrorism." Not everything that inspires terror or fear is terrorism in the political sense. Every war inspires fear as war is an ugly and frightening venture. But soldiers targeting other soldiers is just part of war and not terrorism.

Terrorism means more the purposeful targeting of civilians and civilian structures which have no military use imo.
People tend to mistake other forms of violence with terrorism. Greedy for sensations journalists whose common IQ level is being not more than 20 gladly stick a "terrorism" label on every possible situation (the word is being popular after all).
Terrorism is when you have some goals and you choose to frighten people to achieve these goals. When soldiers aim at other soldiers - that is an act of war. When soldiers aim at civilians purposedly - that is a terrorism.