Security Driver: Hydroplaning
By 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
Counter Sniper Response to the Terrifying Nature of Sniper and Active Shooter Ambushes: New Orleans and the Chinook
By Jim Weiss and Mickey Davis Home hardcore, bad-guy active shooters and snipers are self-trained. They have planned, prepared, and
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Assessing the Active Shooter Attack Against YouTube Headquarters, on April 3, 2018, and Prevention Measures
By 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)
A Reliable Security Process: The CARVER Target Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment Methodology
By Luke Bencie, Charlie Froese, & Elizabeth Kemker On the morning of October 12, 2000, in the harbor of Aden,
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Radicalization in Georgia: The Impact of the Chechen Wars
By Elena Pokalova Sharing a border with a territory experiencing an insurgency poses numerous risks for the government. Neighboring violence
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The Billion Dollar Bust: An Historic Seizure of One Billion Dollars in Cocaine Aboard a Ship in the Port of Philadelphia
By 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)
France’s Fight Against Islamism
By Olivier Guitta During his French presidential campaign in 2017, then candidate Emmanuel Macron had promised that if elected he
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Radical Middle East Actors Increasingly Turn to Drones
By 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
New Study Highlights Why Some Terrorist Groups Spark Insurgencies
Religious terrorist organizations, primarily Islamist groups, are far more likely than other ideologically-motivated groups to launch and fight a sustained
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Five Ways Internet Activity Has Changed Since The Pandemic
By David Gewirtz In our last issue, we discussed the substantial rise in COVID-related scams occurring online. Now, as we
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SITREP 2020 4TH QTR
The latest edition of Crisis Group’s monthly conflict tracker highlights deteriorations in nine countries and conflict areas, as well as
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IACSP Homeland Security Bookshelf V26N2
By Dr. Joshua Sinai Military History The Cambridge History of Warfare [Second Edition] Geoffrey Park, editor, (New York, NY: Cambridge
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SITREP 2020 3RD QTR
The 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
Assessing the Magnitude of the Threats Posed by Hoax Devices as Weapons in Terrorist Attacks and Effective Countermeasures
By Dr. Joshua Sinai Terrorist attackers generally employ real weapons in their attacks, such as firearms, improvised explosive devices (IEDs),
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Security Driver: Backing Up
By Anthony Ricci How many of you are familiar with the famous stomach twisting back stretch trying to get your
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An IACSP Q&A with Former Police Chief Mike Chitwood
Michael J. Chitwood retired as the Upper Darby, Pennsylvania’s Superintendent of Police in December of 2019, ending his more than
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When it Comes to COVID-19, Beware of Digital Infections, Too!
By 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
The Evolution of the European Union’s Counter-Terrorism Policy: A Response to 9/11
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.
Erdogan’s Neo-Ottoman Aspirations Inspire Islamists
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)
Back to the Future: Colombia and the ELN
By Julian Díaz Avila Though a partially successful peace agreement was reached in 2016 between the Colombian government and the
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China Cannot Be Left Unchecked
By Olivier Guitta When Xi Jinping came to power in China in 2013, he made crystal clear that he was
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IACSP Q&A on Biometrics Solutions for Field Identification
An Interview with Russell Megonigal, Senior Product Manager for Biometric Hardware, HID Global on the use of mobile biometric readers
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Behind the Black Mask: The Threat of Antifa
By Paul Davis As rioters, looters and violent protestors cause chaos in American cities in protest to the death of
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The Anarchy Rise-Up of 2020
By Jim Weiss and Mickey Davis Protests and riots are making the news in 2020, but they are not new.
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The Chinese Luyang II-class destroyer Jinan (DDG 152) arrives into Naval Station Mayport (U.S. Navy photo)
An IACSP Q&A with National Security Reporter Bill Gertz
Interviewed by Paul Davis Bill Gertz is the National Security Columnist for the Washington Times. For more than 20 years,
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Security Driver: The “New Norm”? Habits In and Around the Vehicle
By Anthony Ricci The Coronavirus has changed our thoughts and feelings about how we conduct life. For many, this time
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Response to the Terrifying Nature of Active Shooter Ambushes Report # 4 Miami FBI Shootout 4/11/86
By Jim Weiss, Mickey Davis and Bob O’Brien Since there isn’t a universal American criminal law definition of terrorism, for
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Red Cross helpers lift a body bag containing the victim of a bomb blast from a train about one kilometer outside the main train station in Madrid, March 11, 2004. REUTERS: KAI PFAFFENBACH
Issues in Predicting and Forecasting Future Terrorist Warfare
By Dr. Joshua Sinai The field of counter-terrorism studies requires new ways of thinking and methodologies to enable analysts and
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The Christchurch mosque shootings (along the front of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens) Wikipedia Permission Kebabette
Radicalized for Revenge: The Rise of Revenge Terrorism
By Jason Destein One of the manifestations of the current escalation in terrorist attacks around the world, particularly by loosely
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DEA-Led Operation Project Python More Than 600 Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación Members Arrested
By Paul Davis On March 11th, the U.S. Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced the results of
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