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.

May 4, 2017

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

January 23, 2017

Fighting the Long War: The Evolution of al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula

Michael Horton

Drone, Counter Drone: Observations on the Contest Between the United States and Jihadis

Don Rassler

November 30, 2016

The Global Terror Threat and Counterterrorism Challenges Facing the Next Administration

Bruce Hoffman

The Mosul Campaign: From Here to the Horizon

Tim Lister

November 10, 2016

The Islamic State’s External Operations and the French-Belgian Nexus

Jean-Charles Brisard, Kevin Jackson

October 17, 2016

Unseating the Caliphate: Contrasting the Challenges of Liberating Fallujah and Mosul

Zana Gulmohamad