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 27, 2022

A View from the CT Foxhole: Amy Zegart, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Don Rassler, Brian Fishman

November 17, 2021

A View from the CT Foxhole: General Richard D. Clarke, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command

Sean Morrow, Nicholas Tallant

September 8, 2021

Twenty Years After 9/11: Reflections from Ali Soufan, Former FBI Special Agent

Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel

November 20, 2020

Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

June 29, 2020

Pandemic Preparedness: A U.K. Perspective on Overlaps with Countering Terrorism

Nikita Malik

May 29, 2020

The Controller: How Basil Hassan Launched Islamic State Terror into the Skies

Mette Mayli Albæk, Puk Damsgård, Mahmoud Shiekh Ibrahim, Troels Kingo, Jens Vithner

March 24, 2020

Addressing the Enemy: Al-Shabaab’s PSYOPS Media Warfare

Christopher Anzalone

February 27, 2020

“Breaking the Walls” Goes Global: The Evolving Threat of Jihadi Prison Assaults and Riots

Bennett Clifford, Caleb Weiss

The Cyber Threat from Iran after the Death of Soleimani

Annie Fixler

“Fighters Without Borders”—Forecasting New Trends in Iran Threat Network Foreign Operations Tradecraft

Matthew Levitt