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Operations, Plots & Attacks

Learn more about specific terrorist operations, plots, and attacks through the case studies, profiles, and lessons learned articles that we have produced.

May 28, 2015

A View From the CT Foxhole: An Interview with Michael Morell

Bryan Price

April 30, 2015

The Cult of the Offensive: The Islamic State on Defense

Michael Knights, Alexander Mello

March 19, 2015

The Province of Sinai: Why Bother with Palestine if You Can Be Part of the “Islamic State”?

Nelly Lahoud

What to Make of the Bay`a in North Africa?

Geoff D. Porter

February 27, 2015

Terrorist Targeting of the Libyan Oil and Gas Sector

Geoff D. Porter

Hezbollah: Pulled between Resistance to Israel and Defense of Syria

January 20, 2015

Britain’s Terror Threat from the Levant

Raffaello Pantucci

The Paris Attack: A Campaign and its Goals

Brian Dodwell

December 10, 2014

A Classical Analysis of the 2014 Israel-Hamas Conflict

Elad Popovich

The “Seventh Stage” Of Terrorism in China

Sajjan M. Gohel