U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism is an easy-to-read and comprehensive primer detailing the essential information necessary to understand the current terrorist landscape and threats.
The book defines terrorism and outlines the distinctions between what are considered terror attacks, criminal acts, and hate crimes. In looking at both U.S. domestic, and transnational terror organizations, coverage provides a profile of groups’ tactics, attack and operational hallmarks, illegal activities to date, and the ongoing threats they present. The book highlights the need for preparedness and vigilance, but not paranoia—proposing ways in which American authorities and the citizens that they serve can greatly enhance terror awareness, preparedness, and prevention.
U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism serves as both an essential manual and a reference book for a wide variety of readers. This includes homeland security practitioners federal government and Department of Defense forces and protection personal, security and anti-terrorism professionals, law enforcement agencies, fire and medical first responders, academic institutions—offering courses in homeland defense, security, and transnational terrorism studies—and everyday citizens who wish to be informed and aware.
U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism is an easy-to-read and comprehensive primer detailing the essential information necessary to understand the current terrorist landscape and threats.
Preface: Setting the Stage for This Book Part 1: Foundational Knowledge
1. If You See Something, Say Something
2. Statistic Dont Lie
3. Our Glorious
Less Than One Percent
4. Terrorists and Just Plain Criminals
5. The Lone Wolf
6. Sleepers Part Two: Domestic Terrorism
7. Hate Groups in General
8.
Antigovernment Groups
9. Anti-Muslim Groups
10. Antisemitic Groups
11.
Anti-Immigrant Groups
12. Anti-LGBTQ Groups
13. Domestic Terrorism
14. Acts
of Domestic Terrorism: A Rollup
15. White Nationalist (Supremacist) Groups
16. The Ku Klux Klan
17. Sovereign Citizens
18. Racist Skinheads
19. Oath
Keepers
20. Proud Boys
21. Three Percenters
22. QAnon
23. Boogaloo Boys
24.
Neo-Confederate
25. Neo-Nazi
26. Christian Identity
27. Neo-Volkisch
28.
Nation of Islam Part Three: Transnational (Islamist) Terrorism
29. Anatomy of
an Islamist Terrorist
30. U.S. Dept. of State Country Reports on Terrorism
31. The Islamic State (ISIS)
32. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
33. Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force (IRGC-QF)
34. Al Qaeda
35. Hamas
36.
Hezbollah 37.Taliban
38. Haqqani Network
39. Al Shabaab
40. Boko Haram Part
Four: What Can We Do?
41. Community Policing
42. Creating a Culture of
Awareness and Vigilance Epilogue
Joseph A. Ruffini is a retired U.S. Army combat arms officer and Certified Master Anti-Terrorism Specialist who presents terror awareness, preparedness, and prevention presentations and training sessions to government, military, intelligence community, law enforcement, academic, and citizen audiences throughout the United States and internationally. Along with co-author and wife, Patricia, he is managing partner of and principal consultant for JPR & Associates, LLC, their education, training, and consulting company.
Patricia A. Ruffini is a terrorism subject matter expert and juvenile, restorative justice practitioner and consultant. She is a managing partner, senior research analyst, and program manager for JPR & Associates, LLC. For more than 20 years, Pat has scrutinized and quantified terror organizations, their tactics, techniques, and procedures, transliterating volumes of need-to-know information and data into formats that are easy to read and comprehend.
