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Red Teaming Future Waves of Catastrophic Terrorism

Dr. Joshua Sinai

This article’s objective is to demonstrate how a red teaming methodology can be employed in brainstorming sessions, whether by a collaborative team or an individual analyst, to forecast the categories of warfare likely to be selected by organized terrorist groups, loosely affiliated networks, or lone actors of concern against their state adversaries. After explaining the nature of red teaming, eight attack indicators are proposed in a red teaming setting to play out potentia...