John Blaxland, Australian National University
The Christmas market truck assault in Berlin, which has left 12 dead and dozens injured, is a disturbing echo of the truck-borne attack on Bastille Day celebrants on the Nice promenade in July.
- a sense in the security and intelligence business of being overwhelmed by having to trawl through a massive volume of data on potential hostile acts;
- the trend towards greater disaffection among those feeling disempowered; and
- a heightened degree of disaggregation in terrorist activity.
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