Terrorism Transforming

In the second episode of Terrorism Transforming, host Scott Allan talks with Dr. Michael Vickers, a former CIA operations officer and senior Pentagon intelligence official who ran the covert program that drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan. They trace how terrorism has changed since the 1970s: from secular, state-sponsored attacks to al-Qaeda’s religious war against the “far enemy,” and on to today’s franchise groups and Iranian proxies. 

Scott Allan, Senior Fellow in Terrorism Studies at The Jamestown Foundation, sits down with Jamestown President Peter Mattis to take stock of the current terrorism landscape and how its nature is changing.