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 24, 2018

“Spaniards, You Are Going to Suffer:” The Inside Story of the August 2017 Attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils

Fernando Reinares, Carola García-Calvo

November 27, 2017

Foreign Technology or Local Expertise? Al-Shabaab’s IED Capability

Daisy Muibu, Benjamin P. Nickels

October 16, 2017

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lisa Monaco, Former Assistant to President Barack Obama for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

Paul Cruickshank

August 16, 2017

The Mujahidat Dilemma: Female Combatants and the Islamic State

Charlie Winter, Devorah Margolin

June 27, 2017

Crossing the Canal: Why Egypt Faces a Creeping Insurgency

Michael Horton

May 4, 2017

A New Age of Terror? Older Fighters in the Caliphate

John Horgan, Mia Bloom, Chelsea Daymon, Wojciech Kaczkowski, Hicham Tiflati

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