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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.
List of contents
Preface: Setting the Stage for This Book
Part 1: Foundational Knowledge 1. If You See Something, Say Something 2. Statistic Don't 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. Hay'at 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
About the author
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.
