The recent terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas highlight the evolving nature of terrorism, with domestic violent extremists, particularly white supremacists and anti-government groups, posing the most significant threat to the homeland.
The terrorist attack in New Orleans on Jan. 1—and a truck explosion in Las Vegas just a few hours later that also seems to have had a political motive—are a reminder that extremist threats to our nation and our communities remain pressing, even as the landscape of terrorism itself is changing. The attacks also serve as a warning about the need for our counterterrorism strategies to evolve more quickly to adapt to these changes.The traditional landscape of U.S.
terrorism and extremism falls into two categories: international extremism, made up mostly of ISIS and al-Qaeda groups and affiliates, and domestic extremism, which includes white supremacist extremists, animal rights and environmental extremists, and a wide range of antigovernment extremists, such as unlawful militias, anarchists, antifascists, and sovereign citizens, alongside a large catch-all category called 'all other domestic terrorism threats,' which includes extremism motivated by gender, sexual orientation, and religion.Islamist terrorism, which dominated U.S. security concerns for nearly 20 years after 9/11, remains a consistent threat. But by far the bigger national security threat now comes from domestic violent extremists, especially white supremacist extremists and antigovernment extremists, who are identified in an October 2020 threat assessment from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as reflecting the most pressing and lethal threat to the homeland.Two major changes in the terrorism landscape are driving much of the violence we see today. First, we have seen a shift from group-centered terrorism to lone-actor violence like the vehicle-ramming attack from the New Orleans terrorist. Groups still produce much of the propaganda and the playbooks that radicalize and mobilize people, introducing them to extreme and violent ideas and teaching tactics and strategies like weapons and explosive construction. But the vast majority of terrorist actors in the U.S
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