This year began worryingly with a terrorist attack on New Orleans’ famous Borban Street. Attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US army veteran with a disturbed past, Claimed to join the self-proclaimed Islamic State in 2024 And displayed his flag in the truck, which he killed 14 people and injuring some three dozen others. That incident has removed any confusion that the threat of terrorism had passed and groups such as the Islamic State, which were more active a decade ago, were completely deprived of their ability to inspire attacks in the United States. Recent terrorist trends and targeting have been highlighted how we are actually at a significant twist point in global terrorism. Terrorists are embracing the new strategy and mostly looking for separate target sets to remove effective counterons and safety processes, which have thwarted their attacks in the past.
Islamist terrorists in organizations such as al-Qaeda have specificly mastered the art of coordinated, together, which has been one of the most resulting terrorist campaigns in the early 21st century: September 11, 2001 attacks Along with the attacks are also involved. 2004 Madrid Commuter Train Bombing And this 2005 attack on London TransportBut even more complex herd attacks, such as in them Mumbai, India, 2008, Paris, France, 2015And Israel in 2023Has been even more destructive. Intentionally designed to crash defense and to completely collapse any response, flock to the decision making and command, first overwhelms the respondents, and intervene on time. In one related to development, real human attackers do not need to fulfill herd attacks today. Remote-controlled unmanned air system, or drones, such as those who are stricken Langli Air Force Base And New Jersey Town And last year in cities, attacking goals in American cities will have a bad dream that the country is unprepared and unable to counter. The United States has fortunately saved such an example so far, but A Drone herd targeted a military parade Fields at Syrian City Holmes at the end of 2023, killing around 100 people. The absence of reliable counter-government aircraft system platforms increases the danger significantly, as well as legal confusion that agencies have the right to shoot the airborne system.
With this trend, the gloves have a targeting of concerts of terrorism and sports events. Last summer cancellation Taylor Swift’s employed concert in Vienna There was no Vipathan – nor July 2024 Southport, attacking a fast-themed dance class in England, Islamic State attack on Paris’s Batakalan during 2015 heavy metal concerts Claimed the life of 89 persons. Two years after its attack Ariana Grande Concert, 23 killed in Manchester, EnglandAnd, about a year ago, Islamic State killed 130 concerts at a Moscow site, Terrorist plot to derail 2024 Paris Olympics Coupled with Islamic State suicidal attack on Stede de France during France-Germany Football Match How the events of the undercore game have also been targeted. These attacks target the revelations, target the most innocent expressions of civil life, in turn maximize the crippled impact of terrorist attacks. The message was exactly sent on October 7, 2023, as Hamas attacked the Yuva Partyguors at the Nova Music Festival.
About four decades ago, during Palestinian terrorist First Intifada (1987 to 1993) set wildfires As an additional means to attack Israel. Although the strategy started again in that country In 2016This type of arson attacks have been unaware. After the terrible wildfire harassing the Los Angeles Metropolitan region in 2025, Terrorists in Islamic State and Al-Qaeda started calling actively for arson weapons In the United States. By encouraging this strategy, both groups expect to further reduce the country’s economy and spread fear among their inhabitants. ,Burn the money of mistakes , Plang (E) In a spiral of great financial losses, “an Islamic State Post urged him. ,You just have to go to a ‘camping trip’ In a forest near residential districts, then set fire and quietly withdrawn. “In other words, climatic weaknesses can cause disastrous losses to terrorists, possibly human, economic and environmental costs about any terrorist attack in history.
Nevertheless, such magnificent terrorist attacks still become yellow compared to everyday violence caused by arms and dual use technologies that make parts of American daily life and parcels. This further carries forward the formidable challenge faced by those responsible for combating these dangers, which should not only be responsible for new strategy and targeting, but also prepared a defense on more traditional goals. Jabbar’s attack on New Orleans It was very accurately dissatisfied because it was so simple. In fact, the city of New Orleans decided to cancel the Sugar Bowl College Football Game on 2 January. Since 2011, five vehicles attacks such as New Year’s Day on Borbon Street have killed 18 people. Five local parade In the United States. Anti-terrorism physicians are then abandoned by struggling with two dialectical dynamics: the consistent low-technology violence with the horrific viewer of the magnificent.
Rejecting this vein of strategy has become a defined characteristic of contemporary terrorism. Islamic state, for whom New Orleans attacker vowed loyaltySurely replaced the nature of terrorism with its unbridled visual depiction with especially fierce execution and other people of violence. The Islamic State quickly learned that videos of these atrocities simultaneously liberate the world’s attention and attract recruitments, donations and support. Therefore, which can prove to be a distmentary earlier Voluntary “choice” on social media And effectively make the existence and cause of the group public. Bryan Michael Jenkins has a famous saying “Many people want terrorists, not many people killed“Now appears to be the old. It was also a means of completely terrorizing the enemies of the Islamic State – especially through their targeting of women and attendants rape and sexual slavery. Vandalism, rape, waste of corpses, and even necrofilia’s report-it indicates how it in the last decade is a major stability of ultraviolet terrorist operations Has been made
Effectively combat a revived Islamic State in collaboration with the numerous of the dangers of survival is that our rescues are sufficiently strong, adaptive and flexible. Decentralism is a long problem about terrorism. For example, the then US Ambassador to Kenya The State Department advocated for two years to upgrade security at the embassy in NairobiHis arguments were rejected, and on August 8, 1998, 228 people were killed and 4,000 were injured in a suicide truck by al-Qaeda. Recently, A 2019 report A private security company urged that Boldards would be repaired or replaced in the French Quarter of New Orleans to prevent the attack of a vehicle to be killed earlier this year. Amidst the harmful conclusions in the report, it was that “security (was) was handled in a patchwork manner. (That) any proposal or initiative in water render (ed).”
Therefore, it is necessary that, due to the possibility of dangers, proper counters are firmly. This means that taking the threat of terrorist attacks seriously, thinking innovatively and dedicating resources that address the recommendations of security professionals about personal, physical and digital safety. Gaming simulation is an important tool, for example, adequately preparing and especially high -value to protect from large -scale casualties, such as festive events, concerts and sports matches. Some severely weak places may require additional, privately funded and the fire fighting capabilities of employees. Along with extended training to respond to flock attacks and drone attacks, defensive strategy, techniques and procedures are strictly needed given the absence of such protocols, technologies and legal authorities. Finally, it is necessary to prevent future tragedies from increasing cooperation, coordination and information between public and private sectors in collaboration with greater security awareness, such as a one in New Orleans which was away from 2025.
Bruce Hoffman is an anti -terrorism for Counselor and a senior fellow for Council on Foreign Relations and CEO for Homeland Security and CEO of Hoffman Group.
David Branon Naval is a professor of Homeland Defense and Security Center at Postgraduate School and is the vice president of Hoffman Group
Jacob Ware Council is an analyst in a research Fellow and Hoffman Group at the Council on Foreign Relations,
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