U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism: A Guide to Threats Without Borders

by Joseph A. Ruffini, Patricia A. Ruffini

Overview

U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism is an easy-to-read and comprehensive primer detailing the essential information necessary to understand the current terrorist landscape and threats.

The book defines terrorism and outlines the distinctions between what are considered terror attacks, criminal acts, and hate crimes. In looking at both U.S. domestic and transnational terror organizations, the coverage provides a profile of groups’ tactics, attack and operational hallmarks, illegal activities to date, and the ongoing threats they present. The book highlights the need for preparedness and vigilance, but not paranoia – proposing ways in which American authorities and the citizens that they serve can greatly enhance terror awareness, preparedness, and prevention.

U.S. Domestic and Transnational Terrorism serves as both an essential manual and a reference book for a wide variety of readers. This includes homeland security practitioners, federal government and Department of Defense forces and protection personnel, security and anti-terrorism professionals, law enforcement agencies, fire and medical first responders, and academic institutions – offering courses in homeland defense, security, and transnational terrorism studies – and everyday citizens who wish to be informed and aware.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781041043218
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/15/2025
Pages:	422
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joseph A. Ruffini is a retired U.S. Army combat arms officer and Certified Master Anti-Terrorism Specialist who presents terror awareness, preparedness, and prevention presentations and training sessions to government, military, intelligence community, law enforcement, academic, and citizen audiences throughout the United States and internationally. Along with co-author and wife, Patricia, he is managing partner of and principal consultant for JPR & Associates, LLC, their education, training, and consulting company.

Patricia A. Ruffini is a terrorism subject matter expert and juvenile, restorative justice practitioner and consultant. She is a managing partner, senior research analyst, and program manager for JPR & Associates, LLC. For more than 20 years, Pat has scrutinized and quantified terror organizations, their tactics, techniques, and procedures, transliterating volumes of need-to-know information and data into formats that are easy to read and comprehend.

Table of Contents

Preface: Setting the Stage for This Book  Part 1: Foundational Knowledge  1. If You See Something, Say Something  2. Statistic Don’t Lie  3. Our Glorious Less Than One Percent  4. Terrorists and Just Plain Criminals  5. The Lone Wolf  6. Sleepers  Part Two: Domestic Terrorism  7. Hate Groups in General  8. Antigovernment Groups  9. Anti-Muslim Groups  10. Antisemitic Groups  11. Anti-Immigrant Groups  12. Anti-LGBTQ Groups  13. Domestic Terrorism  14. Acts of Domestic Terrorism: A Rollup  15. White Nationalist (Supremacist) Groups  16. The Ku Klux Klan  17. Sovereign Citizens  18. Racist Skinheads  19. Oath Keepers  20. Proud Boys  21. Three Percenters  22. QAnon  23. Boogaloo Boys  24. Neo-Confederate  25. Neo-Nazi  26. Christian Identity  27. Neo-Volkisch  28. Nation of Islam  Part Three: Transnational (Islamist) Terrorism  29. Anatomy of an Islamist Terrorist  30. U.S. Dept. of State Country Reports on Terrorism  31. The Islamic State (ISIS)  32. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)  33. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force (IRGC-QF)  34. Al Qaeda  35. Hamas  36. Hezbollah  37.Taliban  38. Haqqani Network  39. Al Shabaab  40. Boko Haram  Part Four:  What Can We Do?  41. Community Policing  42. Creating a Culture of Awareness and Vigilance  Epilogue