Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
From Earth Liberation to Accelerationism: A High-Level Review of Fifty Years of Domestic Infrastructure Terrorism - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
Abstract: This article reviews 50 years of domestic extremist attacks and plots against U.S. critical infrastructure and infrastructure-adjacent industrial and commercial targets. Using an original open-source dataset (1970–July 2025) compiled from terrorism incident databases, government reporting, and a systematic review of federal case records, it documents how sabotage has appeared across ideologically divergent milieus, with … Continued