What is the Terrorism Research Centre?

Introduction The Terrorism Research Centre (TRC) is non-profit think tank focused on investigating and researching global terrorism issues through multi-disciplinary collaboration amongst a group of international experts. Not to be confused with the Terrorism Research Centre (TRC) which is housed in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Arkansas. Brief History 1996… Read More

What are Terrorist Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures?

Introduction Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) is an essential concept in terrorism and cyber security studies. The role of TTPs in terrorism analysis is to identify individual patterns of behaviour of a particular terrorist activity, or a particular terrorist organisation, and to examine and categorise more general tactics and weapons used by a particular terrorist… Read More

What is a Clandestine Cell System?

Introduction A clandestine cell system is a method for organising a group of people, such as resistance fighters, sleeper agents, mobsters, or terrorists, to make it harder for the police or military to catch them. In a cell structure, each of the small groups of people in the cell know the identities of the people… Read More

Collaboration with the Islamic State: A Brief Overview

Introduction Collaboration with the Islamic State refers to the cooperation and assistance given by governments, non-state actors, and private individuals to IS during the Syrian Civil War, Iraqi Civil War, and Libyan Civil War. The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State (ISIL), the Islamic State… Read More

What is Targeted Killing?

Introduction Targeted killing is defined as a form of killing carried out by governments. Some analysts believe that it is a modern euphemism for the assassination (prominent premeditated killing) of an individual by a state organisation or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield. Since the late 20th century, the legal status of targeted… Read More

Military Medical Assistance after the Manchester Arena Bombing

Research Paper Title Military assistance to the civil authority: medical liaison with the Manchester clinicians after the Arena bombing. Background UK Defence Medical Services’ personnel have experienced an intense exposure to patients injured during war over the last decade and a half. As some bitter lessons of war surgery were relearned and innovative practices introduced,… Read More

The Manchester Arena Bombing & Medical Military Assistance

Research Paper Title Military assistance to the civil authority: medical liaison with the Manchester clinicians after the Arena bombing. Background UK Defence Medical Services’ personnel have experienced an intense exposure to patients injured during war over the last decade and a half. As some bitter lessons of war surgery were relearned and innovative practices introduced,… Read More