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Strategy, History, & Goals

Ends, ways, and means. Terrorist organizations are familiar with these concepts and the development of strategy too. Over the course of our history the CTC has studied and released reports and articles about terrorist goals and strategy. Browse the content below to learn more.

Major Reports

Risks, Recruits, and Plots: Understanding and Mitigating the Influence of the Islamic State in Malaysia
AQIM’s Imperial Playbook: Understanding al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb’s Expansion into West Africa
Iran Entangled: Iran and Hezbollah’s Support to Proxies Operating in Syria
Assessing U.S. Counterterrorism in Africa, 2001-2021: Summary Document of CTC’s Africa Regional Workshop
Structure of a State: Captured Documents and the Islamic State’s Organizational Structure
Rising in the East: The Evolution of the Islamic State in the Philippines
Desert Drift, Declining Deadliness: Understanding the Evolution of AQIM’s Suicide Bombings
Rising in the East: A Regional Overview of the Islamic State’s Operations in Southeast Asia
Broken, but Not Defeated: An Examination of State-led Operations against Islamic State Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2015-2018)
From Battlefront to Cyberspace: Demystifying the Islamic State’s Propaganda Machine

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