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.

January 21, 2026

A New ‘Regicides’ Era? Analyzing Trends in Terrorism Threats Against European Elected Officials

Thomas Renard

October 14, 2025

Ten Years Later: The Legacy of the Paris Attacks on Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks in the West

Alexandre Rodde

August 20, 2025

A View from the CT Foxhole: James Stack, Director, Great Plains Diagnostic Network

Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

July 24, 2025

Moving Targets: Implications of the Russo-Ukrainian War for Drone Terrorism

David Hambling

March 28, 2025

Into the Crowd: The Evolution of Vehicular Attacks and Prevention Efforts

Alexandre Rodde, Justin Olmstead

On the Horizon: The Ukraine War and the Evolving Threat of Drone Terrorism

Don Rassler, Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

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