Executive Summary

We assess that the use of vehicle-ramming attacks as a terrorist tactic is a growing international security threat. The wide availability of vehicles and the ease of planning and executing such attacks pose a major challenge for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to detect and prevent them. Both the Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have encouraged their followers to execute such attacks due to their destructive capabilities. [source, source]

The use of vehicles as a terrorist weapon is not new and has been observed since the 1960s-70s, however, the last decade has seen a sharp rise in their occurrence. We do not expect a divergence from this trend. [source, source]

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