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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.

October 14, 2025

Hamas Plots in Europe: A Shift Toward External Operations?

Matthew Levitt

October 6, 2025

Inside Hamas: How It Thinks, Fights, and Governs

Magnus Ranstorp

A View from the CT Foxhole: Zohar Palti, Former Director, Policy & Political-Military Bureau, Israel’s Ministry of Defense

Assaf Moghadam, Don Rassler

September 26, 2025

Militant Violence in Jammu and Kashmir Post-Abrogation of Article 370

Animesh Roul

Uzbek Foreign Fighter Groups in the Syrian Jihad: The Evolution of KIB and KTJ from 2011 through 2025

Kathleen Collins

Feature Commentary: Confronting Cartels: Military Considerations South of the Border

Brian Michael Jenkins

September 8, 2025

The Global State of al-Qa`ida 24 Years After 9/11

Colin Clarke, Clara Broekaert

August 20, 2025

Understanding China’s New Counterterrorism Ambitions in Africa

Jason Warner

Tehran’s Homeland Option: Terror Pathways for Iran to Strike in the United States

Matthew Levitt

July 24, 2025

The Escalation of U.S. Airstrikes in Somalia and the Role of Perceived Threats to the U.S. Homeland

David Sterman

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