prof. alexander and general gray for inviting me here today. i am especially honored to be here given the caliber of my fellow presenters, and they showed me the list of some of the attendees and the caliber of those of you in the audience so i am grateful. thank you. grateful and honored. on the subject of lone wolf terrorism, there are a lot of definitions of what is a lone wolf. some people even hate the idea of calling them lone wolves because it sort of glorifies them. some say they should be lone dogs but i guess that's an insult to dogs i guess, or lone offenders but for the sake of today i will call it lone wolves definition of lone wolves are all over the map. last summer i let a task force at georgetown toluca who is a lone wolf, and what is a long wolf. the definition we came up is one that we thought would help you develop a framework whereby you could really analyze the different kind of lone actors. we came up with a definition that is, first and foremost, deliberate creation and exploitation of fear through violence or threat of