Weapons & Tactics

Gun. Knife. Bomb. Vehicle-Ramming. Suicide Attack. Mixed Method Assault. Terrorists face a variety of choices when it comes to weapons and tactics. Learn more about trade-offs and specific preferences.

October 6, 2024

Tehran’s Tactical Knockout: Weaponized Pharmaceutical-Based Agents

Matthew Levitt

June 28, 2024

Printing Terror: An Empirical Overview of the Use of 3D-Printed Firearms by Right-Wing Extremists

Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

February 22, 2024

Going the Distance: The Emergence of Long-Range Stand-Off Terrorism

Don Rassler

December 21, 2023

The Future of Terrorist Use of Improvised Explosive Devices: Getting in Front of an Evolving Threat

Austin C. Doctor, Sam Hunter

May 26, 2022

Going Viral: Implications of COVID-19 for Bioterrorism

Gary A. Ackerman, Zachary Kallenborn, Philipp C. Bleek

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

February 24, 2022

A Prison Attack and the Death of its Leader: Weighing Up the Islamic State’s Trajectory in Syria

Charlie Winter, Abdullah Alrhmoun

A View from the CT Foxhole: Randall Blake, Former National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, National Intelligence Council

Paul Cruickshank, Kristina Hummel, Don Rassler