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A growing issue in todays world is that of transnational terror. Different extremist groups have taken to a variety of different methods in executing acts of terrorism. To fight this countries must work together and aid in providing security to other nations to fight these attacks.

Transnational terror is a problem faced by all countries around the world and must be continuously fought by everyone in order to ensure safety for all. Countries can either choose a high or low offense in fighting terrorism ultimately determining the payoff they will receive. All decisions affect one another and the payoff both the home and foreign country will receive.

An example of this would be in a situation where the payoff for all countries is 10 when the high offense is chosen, yet the cost of choosing the high offense for your country is 12, leaving a net payoff of -2. Therefore, if one country chooses high offense whereas the other country chooses low, the country choosing low will gain 10 while the high offense country gets the -2. There is added benefit for both countries if both choose high offense of an additional 10, making the net benefit 8. Though this is the preferred option the payoff of 10 for a country that chooses low offense is higher and the sought after choice, leading to countries to play this strategy.

On the other hand, in a situation where payoff for a country is only 4 for high offense, and the cost remains 12, however the additional payoff for both countries to play high offense is 16, high offense will be the dominate strategy played by the countries. If both countries use high offensive strategies in fighting terrorism they will get a net gain of 8, where if one chooses low offense they only gain 4. This will push both countries to choose a high offensive strategy.

Overall no matter what the situation it is better for both countries to choose a high offensive for the mutually higher payoff. This way everyone gets better protection and no dispute arises between countries over their offensive strategy.