![]() Louis Beam, a prominent leader in white supremacist and neo-Nazi circles, advocated for the adoption of “leaderless resistance” in 1988. But while communities such as Hammerskin Nation serve as the ideological fuel for lone wolf terrorism, they generally do not engage in actual conspiracy or incite anyone to commit terrorist acts and are not prosecutable. The online community “Hammerskin Nation” is one such group named by the Anti-Defamation League as “the most violent and best-organized neo-Nazi skinhead group in the United States.” 2 Hammerskin Nation calls itself “a leaderless group of men and women who have adopted the White Power Skinhead lifestyle.” The website speaks positively of lone wolf violence and encourages racial hatred. That is not to say that lone wolf terrorists arise out of a vacuum indeed, ideological “hate groups” flourish throughout the US, especially in cyberspace and on social media. Traditional methods of infiltrating terrorist organizations obviously cannot work when single, unaffiliated terrorists arise unpredictably out of the populace. Most lone wolf terrorists, however, possess no membership to any established terrorist organization. This means infiltrating terrorist organizations, exposing them, and dismantling them before the terrorists have the opportunity to act. Since 9/11, the US Intelligence Community and law enforcement have focused their counterterrorism efforts on stopping terrorism before it starts. The real challenge of combating lone wolf terror is trying to deal with its leaderless model. The great majority of all attacks had no connection to Islam, Islamism, or jihad. ![]() Of these later terrorist acts, half seem to have been motivated by “ideologies of hate” (i.e., Islamism, white supremacy, etc.) and the other half by antigovernment, or anarchic, ideologies. 2015 were planned and conducted by two or fewer people. According to the study, 74% of terrorist operations in the US were planned and perpetrated by single persons, and 90% of those perpetrated between April 2009 and Feb. In February 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published a study on domestic terrorism within the US, covering sixty-two acts of terror perpetrated between the US from 01 April 2009 to 01 February 2015. Recent evidence suggests that since 2001, non-Islamist lone wolf terrorists are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in the U.S. 1 US law enforcement and intelligence agencies may need to develop fundamentally new strategies for combating and preventing lone wolf terror. Since 2001, these types of terrorist attacks are increasing in number and frequency and are particularly difficult to engage from a preventative standpoint. The distinctive aspect of the lone wolf terrorist is that he or she plans and perpetrates acts of terror independently, without any direct influence from a terrorist organization. ![]() Send us feedback.A lone wolf terrorist is, like any other variety of terrorist, a violent political extremist. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lone wolf.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Erin Patrick O'connor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2013 Byrne and his colleagues printed hats and T-shirts with their own logo for Team 10: a lone wolf, howling into a void. 2022 What ocean mammal is a rare bird but not a lone wolf? - Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2022 Highly-touted quarterback Austin Novesad is currently committed to the Bears for next season, but Shapen appears to be a lone wolf in terms of those with a realistic shot at starting under center. ![]() 2023 This year, with Akinjo gone, Flagler is the lone wolf to take charge and be the focal ballhander. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. ![]() 2023 The easiest way to defeat Zircon is to sink the ships it is deployed on, and so far, Admiral Gorshkov, is the lone wolf. 2023 The film follows two lone wolf fixers (Clooney and Pitt) as they are assigned to carry out the same job, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2023 One day later, a Palestinian gunman killed seven Israeli civilians outside an East Jerusalem synagogue after Sabbath prayers in a lone wolf attack, the deadliest terrorist attack on Israelis in years. Recent Examples on the Web Science has left behind the era of the lone wolf mutations. ![]()
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