Borealis Threat & Risk ConsultingPhil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. Phil is a 32-year veteran of CSE and CSIS and the author of six books on terrorism.
The Bataclan theatre attack catapulted ISIS, and more specifically, returning foreign terrorist fighters into the international limelight. I have never witnessed a terrorist attack, let alone been injured in one. I have had to analyse the aftermath of many terrorist attacks and even been a small part of a larger team that helped to prevent […]
We really need to stop prematurely declaring the death of terrorist groups despite our need to celebrate victories.
Does the death of a terrorist leader have a significant impact on the group success? Does the removal of the head actually means anything?
In 2015, 43 people were killed and more than 240 wounded in two suicide bomb blasts claimed by ISIS in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
We are thankfully not inundated with terrorism in Canada. It would be nice, however, to call it what it is when it occurs.
On Remembrance Day in 2016, some neo-Nazis decided to bomb a leftist centre in Gothenburg Sweden.
“Hi Phil, my question to you is why do we feel the need to categorize terrorists by race, religion, etc…”
Was an ‘ecoterrorist’ attack in Mexico eight years ago a harbinger of things to come?
Listen to my interview on The Ryan Jespersen Show yesterday morning for a discussion on how extremists justify violence through faith.
Knife and bomb attacks carried out by lone terrorists in Australia and Cameroon show terrorism can occur at the hands of an individual.