The Right’s Time to Fly?

UAVs have been used by non-state actors in the past decade. However, no known attack right-wing extremists has carried out using them. Håvard Haugstvedt reviews recent developments attacks – through online activity open forums and examining groups that already their operations such actors, to explore possibility of adopting UAVs. The article argues extremist lack a strong entity, as state, backing development operations. terrorist learn from one another, extreme ideologies gained currency among some members military law enforcement agencies, capability develop use may be more possible than which revealed thus far. Nonetheless, this casts doubt on extremists’ desire incorporate into violent repertoire historically composed fists, fires firearms.◼