Where Wolves: Understanding the Lone Wolf Terrorist Theory and Identifying Potential Perpetrators to Mitigate Future Attacks

Abstract

An increase in lone wolf terrorist attacks in recent years certainly warrants attention from counterterrorism experts and law enforcement professionals. Lone wolf terrorists may proceed to manipulate security gaps, but the proactive alliance among educated counterterrorism experts, law enforcement professionals, and community members might produce the preeminent silver bullet to identify the lone wolf terrorist and stop an attack from happening.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 2017
Accession Number
AD1176474

Entities

People

  • Adam M Calderon

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Counterterrorism
  • Criminals
  • Domestic
  • Domestic Terrorism
  • Emerging Threats
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Explosives
  • Governments
  • Human Population
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Law Enforcement
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Police
  • Radicalization
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Societies
  • Task Forces
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Theses
  • Threats
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Violence

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.