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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.

February 18, 2021

Al-Qa`ida’s Soon-To-Be Third Emir? A Profile of Saif al-`Adl

Ali Soufan

January 14, 2021

Afghanistan’s Security Forces Versus the Taliban: A Net Assessment

Jonathan Schroden

Terrorism and Counterterrorism Challenges for the Biden Administration

Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware

November 20, 2020

Outlasting the Caliphate: The Evolution of the Islamic State Threat in Africa

Jason Warner, Ryan O’Farrell, Héni Nsaibia, Ryan Cummings

Afghanistan’s Future Emirate? The Taliban and the Struggle for Afghanistan

Seth G. Jones

October 22, 2020

Jihadi Insurgency in Mozambique Grows in Sophistication and Reach

Tim Lister

Back into the Shadows? The Future of Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s Other Proxies in Iraq

Michael Knights

September 17, 2020

The Crisis Within Jihadism: The Islamic State’s Puritanism vs. al-Qa`ida’s Populism

Mohammed Hafez

August 31, 2020

The Islamic State’s Strategic Trajectory in Africa: Key Takeaways from its Attack Claims

Tomasz Rolbiecki, Pieter Van Ostaeyen, Charlie Winter

July 31, 2020

The End of the Sahelian Anomaly: How the Global Conflict between the Islamic State and al-Qa`ida Finally Came to West Africa

Héni Nsaibia, Caleb Weiss

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