Looking back helps us see the future

This paper marks year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Pool Re. In an era dominated by the threat of Islamist terrorism and the spectre of suicide attacks and mass casualty bombings and rampages, it can be easy to overlook the context in which Pool Re was created and easy too to forget that today is not the first era in which terrorism has poised strategic threats and challenges to the UK. The paper explores the terrorist threat as it existed in the 1990s and highlights how some issues remain as critical today as they did then.