Lone Wolf Terrorism and its difficult threat to the West

 Lone Wolf Terrorism is probably the most difficult form of Terrorism to detect and prevent, as many of these actors are simply inspired by an ideology or radicalized online, with no connection to a particular organization or agency. This is why it is so difficult to prevent. All they have to do is sympathize with a cause and act on its behalf, without any orders or plans from a particular group or organization. This makes their activities difficult to trace and analyze. However, their are many signs that a potential lone wolf operative leaves in his or her wake. They often collect and subscribe to radical belief systems, and they sympathize with the actors in the belief system they subscribe to, though most have never actually met the spearheads of the ideology or belief system. Lone wolf terrorists sometimes are socially outcasted by their peers and community, but not always. They also often belong to the racial, ethnic, and/or religious group that the ideology originated with. There is always an exception to every argument, including the argument that there is an exception to every argument, haha, which is why I won't say all lone wolf terrorists are muslims or white supremacists when dealing with radical islam or far right ideology. Their could be an occasional anomaly, where a member of a different group acts in the interest of another group. What I do notice about lone wolf attacks is that they are darkly imaginative, yet unsophisticated when the terrorist doesn't have access to weapons, like driving a truck through a crowd of people at full speed. I believe lone wolf terrorism to be the most pressing terrorist threat to the West, predominantly because of the inability to quickly detect and prevent such actions. Thanks, and God bless.