Improved border security shifts terrorism toward domestic lone-wolf attacks

Evidence

As large-scale, cross-border terrorist attacks become more difficult to carry out because of improved security measures, foreign terrorists try to recruit domestic proxies to act for them (Shane, 2013b). … He went on to explain the advantage of undetectability: “[T]hese types of individual decision-making attacks are nearly impossible for them to contain.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2266

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to lone-wolf terrorism literature and the classic tradeoff between centralized organizational violence and decentralized leaderless resistance.