Terrorist and sabotage attacks on selected critical infrastructure systems – a historical perspective

The article describes terrorist and sabotage attacks carried out worldwide against two major critical infrastructure (CI) systems: energy supply and public transport. The selection of the events described in the article was subjective. In the section on attacks on the energy sector, the author adopted a geographical division – Middle East, Africa and South America. In the section on attacks on public transport, the division includes land transport and air transport. In the case of terrorist attacks on rail infrastructure, the author mainly used Anneli Botha’s study covering data from 2000 to 2017 and the work of Brian M. Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth, and for air transport, the work of Jacques Duchesneau. Not all data on attacks on CI systems has been updated due to the fact that the information contained in the sources is partial. The author draws the conclusion that with the development of modern technology and the escalation of tensions in international relations, the level of threat to CI will increase.