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"The Most Persistent and Lethal Threat"

Why It Matters

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The Rise of Leaderless Resistance

The advent of lone wolves or lone actor terrorism and also online radicalization and recruitment both have their roots in 1983 and 1984 when American white supremacists championed a strategy of what they called leaderless resistance. We see many of Stark parallels today to that previous era. The period of the 1970s and 80s may not be the most notorious moment in the history of American racial terror, but Bruce points it out because of the Stark parallels to our own time.

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