Why the “Terrorist Attack Cycle” keeps circulating and what it misses
Intelligence analysts seriously need to start looking at the ground
Today, in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Sydney, I saw the same graphic circulating again inside intelligence and security circles.
The “terrorist attack cycle.”
A clean loop.
Every time something like this happens, it comes back. And every time it does, it reveals less about the attacker than about… how we try to make sense of v…
