“The analyses of the current existing capabilities of intelligence services indicate that there is no effective method or the possibility of an effective way of warfare with lone wolves” (p. 6).
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Conclusion
Upon analyzing a quarter-century worth of lone offender attacks in the United States, the research has concluded that there was no verifiable correlation between 9/11 and an increase in lone attacks. This lack of a proven increase of lone offender terror attacks in the years following 9/11 provides a critical insight: that this attack specifically did not have as great of an influence on lone offenders as it was perceived to have. However, the exponential increase in attacks the following decade, utilizing information available and verifiable from 2010-2015, instead suggests that there may be another force with a far more substantial influence on violent extremism and lone offenses.