# Leaderless Resistance **Entity class:** Decentralized organizational strategy **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Leaderless resistance** is a strategy in which individuals or small cells act without routine command-and-control contact with a central organization. Shared ideology and publicly available scripts can substitute for direct tasking. ## Relationships - **related to:** [[wiki/Lone-Actor Terrorism|Lone-Actor Terrorism]] and [[wiki/Leaderless Jihad|Leaderless Jihad]]. - **network form:** [[wiki/Dark Network|Dark Network]] and decentralized [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]]. - **counterterrorism problem:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]