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Operations, Plots & Attacks

Learn more about specific terrorist operations, plots, and attacks through the case studies, profiles, and lessons learned articles that we have produced.

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May 4, 2017

Lessons Learned from the Police Response to the San Bernardino and Orlando Terrorist Attacks

Frank Straub, Jennifer Zeunik, Ben Gorban

A View from the CT Foxhole: James A. Gagliano, Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team Counterterrorist Operator

Paul Cruickshank

April 14, 2017

Fifteen Years after the Djerba Synagogue Bombing

Aaron Y. Zelin

Defeat by Annihilation: Mobility and Attrition in the Islamic State’s Defense of Mosul

Michael Knights, Alexander Mello

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