Course Description
In an era of rapidly evolving threats, understanding terrorism demands more than definitions and doctrine — it requires tactical insight, strategic thinking, and cross-domain fluency. This five-day counterterrorism and intelligence course immerses participants in the operational realities of modern terrorism, exploring ideological foundations, recruitment pipelines, attack planning, financing, and tactical disruption.
Each day builds progressively, beginning with core theoretical frameworks and advancing toward real-time case simulations and predictive threat modeling. Designed with a strong intelligence focus, the course integrates tradecraft such as open-source collection, behavioral analysis, and interagency coordination to reflect the demands of modern counterterrorism operations.
The curriculum integrates academic literature, classified-style case work, and real-world terrorist media to bridge theory and practice. Emerging threats, including AI-generated propaganda, drone-enabled attacks, and the crime-terror nexus, are central to the final module and capstone.