The Threat Of Terrorist Vehicular Ramming: Attacks And Prevention Measures
By Dr. Joshua Sinai Firearms, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and knives have long been the weapons of choice for terrorists,
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French police secure the area as the investigation continues at the scene near the heavy truck that ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores who were celebrating the Bastille Day July 14 national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
By Dr. Joshua Sinai Firearms, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and knives have long been the weapons of choice for terrorists,
Read MoreBy Thomas A. Marks & David H. Ucko With the United States having shifted its defense emphasis to peer and
Read MoreBy Todd Hand The basic intentions of the United States homeland security policies over the 244 years of independence have
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Soldiers from Burkina Faso participate in a simulated raid during the U.S. sponsored Flintlock exercises in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso REUTERS/Luc Gnago
By Olivier Guitta Seven African nations are among the 10 riskiest global locations terrorism-wise. Two of them, the neighbors Burkina
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Pro-Hamas demonstrators at a rally in Damascus Syria in december 2008 during the Israel-Gaza conflict. CC BY 2.0 Thephotostrand.
By Yaakov Lappin The two Palestinian rival governing movements, Fatah and Hamas, are preparing for elections in the coming months,
Read MoreBy Paul Davis Back in November of 2019, Microsoft’s President Brad Smith was questioned on 60 Minutes about the SolarWinds
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National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from several states have traveled to Washington to provide support to federal and district authorities leading up to the 59th Presidential Inauguration. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Matt Hecht) CC BY 2.0 The National Guard
By David Gewirtz January 6, 2021. Another day that shall live in infamy. I’m talking, of course, about the day
Read MoreIn Mozambique, Islamist insurgents launched a major attack on the strategic port town of Palma in the far north, leaving
Read MoreJohn Douglas is a legendary FBI criminal profiler and the author of true crime books. He is considered a pioneer
Read MoreBy Anthony Ricci Heavy rains definitely make any driver’s job much more difficult to deal with. Our visibility is decreased,
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New Orleans, Louisiana, January 8, 1973. A sharpshooting, police counter sniper is on the upper level of a building across from the hotel. He is on the lookout for signs of what might be a second sniper. This other building, with the police counter sniper, overlooked the Howard Johnson’s hotel. The Marine Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight is seen to the left of the hotel. Photo courtesy of The New Orleans Times – Picayune, The New Orleans Advocate
By Jim Weiss and Mickey Davis Home hardcore, bad-guy active shooters and snipers are self-trained. They have planned, prepared, and
Read MoreBy Dr. Joshua Sinai This article assesses the ramifications of the active shooter attack by Nassim Aghdam on April 3,
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The USS Cole (DDG 67) is towed away from the port city of Aden, Yemen, into open sea by the Military Sealift Command ocean-going tug USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168) on Oct. 29, 2000. TDoD photo by Sgt. Don L. Maes, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
By Luke Bencie, Charlie Froese, & Elizabeth Kemker On the morning of October 12, 2000, in the harbor of Aden,
Read MoreBy Elena Pokalova Sharing a border with a territory experiencing an insurgency poses numerous risks for the government. Neighboring violence
Read MoreBy Paul Davis In September 10, 2020 Aleksandar Kavaja pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to
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Emmanuel Macron at the Phare de Biarritz in Biarritz, France. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)
By Olivier Guitta During his French presidential campaign in 2017, then candidate Emmanuel Macron had promised that if elected he
Read MoreBy Yaakov Lappin Radical actors throughout the Middle East and beyond are increasingly turning to various types of drones to
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Palestinian militants march during a rally organized by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) in al-Buraij refugee camp in Gaza Strip May 23, 2009. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Religious terrorist organizations, primarily Islamist groups, are far more likely than other ideologically-motivated groups to launch and fight a sustained
Read MoreBy David Gewirtz In our last issue, we discussed the substantial rise in COVID-related scams occurring online. Now, as we
Read MoreThe latest edition of Crisis Group’s monthly conflict tracker highlights deteriorations in nine countries and conflict areas, as well as
Read MoreBy Dr. Joshua Sinai Military History The Cambridge History of Warfare [Second Edition] Geoffrey Park, editor, (New York, NY: Cambridge
Read MoreThe latest edition of Crisis Group’s monthly conflict tracker highlights deteriorations in 11 countries and conflict situations, the overwhelming majority
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The Home Depot rental truck used by perpetrator Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov during the 2017 Lower Manhattan attack, the morning after the incident. CC BY-SA 4.0 Gh9449
By Dr. Joshua Sinai Terrorist attackers generally employ real weapons in their attacks, such as firearms, improvised explosive devices (IEDs),
Read MoreBy Anthony Ricci How many of you are familiar with the famous stomach twisting back stretch trying to get your
Read MoreMichael J. Chitwood retired as the Upper Darby, Pennsylvania’s Superintendent of Police in December of 2019, ending his more than
Read MoreBy David Gerwitz As we approach our seventh month of the COVID-19 crisis, we’re beginning to settle into a bit
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Dozens of mourning people captured during civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks victims. Western Europe, France, Paris, place de la République, November 15, 2015.
CC BY-SA 4.0 Mstyslav Chernov
By Shreya Sinha Introduction Terrorism has emerged as one of the most widely recognizable and visible threats to a nation’s
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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Turkey on October 17, 2018.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s once hidden agenda of reviving a modern version of the Ottoman Empire is not so
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Colombian Special Forces QRF [quick reaction force] ready to support units during military operations against ELN (Source: author collection)
By Julian Díaz Avila Though a partially successful peace agreement was reached in 2016 between the Colombian government and the
Read MoreBy Olivier Guitta When Xi Jinping came to power in China in 2013, he made crystal clear that he was
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