Place still matters: The operational geography of jihadist terror attacks against the US Homeland 1990–2012

Transnational terrorism in the age of globalization is often viewed as a diffuse phenomenon unbounded by geography. A review of violent Sunni Islamist extremists (i.e. “jihadist”) terrorist attacks against the United States' homeland between 1990 and 2012, however, reveals specific spatial characteristics. Indeed, there has been considerable geographical consistency in the loci of command and control, and target selection. Different cell types...