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The Hunt: Halfway through 2025, global terrorism threats are growing fast

By J.J. Green

In this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, the senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said there are three major concerns in regards to the growing threat of global terrorism.

Analysis: How foreign adversaries are redefining America’s threat horizon

By J.J. Green
While U.S. leaders struggle to contain domestic vulnerabilities, America’s adversaries are preparing for the next phase of digital warfare. The new battlefield is already here — inside networks, satellites and personal devices — and it is expanding faster than the systems designed to defend it. China’s Salt Typhoon operation revealed the scale of what is coming. For years, Beijing’s cyber units quietly penetrated U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, listening in on live calls, reading text messages and mapping sensitive communications among political and security leaders. This was not espionage in the traditional sense; it was an exercise in real-time situational dominance, knowing what American leaders were thinking before they acted.
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