The phenomenon of lone wolf terrorism has emerged to be one of the most unpredictable forms of terrorism currently plaguing United States national security. Unlike group-based terrorism, lone wolf terrorists have a critical advantage in avoiding identification and detection before their attacks as they often do not communicate or portray their intentions with others. For this reason, the lethality of lone wolf terror attacks tends to be greater when compared to group-based terrorists. Despite this emerging threat, no single standardized profile of lone wolf terrorists currently exists to predict or analyze offenders accurately. Research on this phenomenon has been severely lacking, primarily due to relatively small number of lone wolf terrorists
