In the wake of 9/11 and the global war on terror, terrorist threats have changed, especially as the rise of the Internet has allowed many “lone wolf” actors to carry out individual attacks without the institutional backing of an established terrorist group. In an article quoting CERL Executive Board Member General Joseph Votel, RFE/RL lays out the dimensions of the evolving threat, and notes that the U.S. counterterrorism infrastructure has lost significant resources since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

General Joseph L. Votel, U.S. Army (Ret.), is the former Commander of the U.S. Central Command. He is a Distinguished Military Fellow at the Middle East Institute and a member of the CERL Executive Board. Read his bio here.   

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