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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.

May 23, 2023

The Targeting of Infrastructure by America’s Violent Far-Right

Colin Clarke, Mollie Saltskog, Michaela Millender, Naureen C. Fink

March 23, 2023

The Prisoner Dilemma: Insurrectionary Anarchism and the Cospito Affair

Francesco Marone

The December 2022 German Reichsbürger Plot to Overthrow the German Government

Alexander Ritzmann

December 19, 2022

A View from the CT Foxhole: Harun Maruf, Senior Editor, Voice of America Somali

Paul Cruickshank

August 9, 2022

The Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri: Succession Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Other Implications

Don Rassler, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

July 19, 2022

The Buffalo Attack: The Cumulative Momentum of Far-Right Terror

Amarnath Amarasingam, Marc-André Argentino, Graham Macklin

June 23, 2022

CTC-ICT Focus on Israel: What Can We Learn from the Spring 2022 Terror Wave in Israel

Boaz Ganor

April 27, 2022

The Urgent Need for an Overhaul of Global Biorisk Management

Filippa Lentzos, Gregory D. Koblentz, Joseph Rodgers

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lawrence Kerr, Former Director, Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

A New Age of Bioterror: Anticipating Exploitation of Tunable Viral Agents

Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo, Jeremy Hershfield, Andrew Kick, Kevin J. O’Donovan, Jason Barnhill