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Strategies For Negotiating With ‘Good’ Taliban
The Obama administration has begun to distinguish between “good” and “bad” Taliban as military commanders in Afghanistan consider negotiating with...
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Seeds of Destruction
By mid-2001, al-Qa’ida training camps in Afghanistan were buzzing with the news that a big operation was under way. Details...
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White Paper Prepared for The Secretary of Defense Task Force on DoD Nuclear Weapons Management: Tradeoffs and Paradoxes: Terrorism, Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons
In August 2009, the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism published “Tradeoffs and Paradoxes: Terrorism, Deterrence and Nuclear Weapons,” an...
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A Deafening Silence
President Bush’s State of the Union Address in January of 2002 marked Hizballah as one of the primary targets of...
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Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
In May 2009, former CTC Distinguished Chair and current Senior Fellow, Ambassador Michael Sheehan published his book: Crush the Cell:...
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Experts Fear Al-Qaida May Turn To Piracy
Al-Qaida is nothing if not opportunistic. Its leadership watches the news carefully. It tracks how stories play. It adapts its...
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