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.

June 22, 2018

A View from the CT Foxhole: Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Price, Ph.D., Outgoing Director, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Brian Dodwell

May 24, 2018

A View From the CT Foxhole: Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times Foreign Correspondent

Bryan Price with Mikki Franklin

The Islamic State Threat to the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Brian Glyn Williams, Robert Troy Souza

April 26, 2018

The British Hacker Who Became the Islamic State’s Chief Terror Cybercoach: A Profile of Junaid Hussain

Nafees Hamid

Challenging the ISK Brand in Afghanistan-Pakistan: Rivalries and Divided Loyalties

Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani, Charmaine Willis

NYPD vs. Revolution Muslim: The Inside Story of the Defeat of a Local Radicalization Hub

Jesse Morton, Mitchell Silber

March 29, 2018

Islamic State Chemical Weapons: A Case Contained by its Context?

Markus K. Binder, Jillian M. Quigley, Herbert F. Tinsley

Black Banners in Somalia: The State of al-Shabaab’s Territorial Insurgency and the Specter of the Islamic State

Christopher Anzalone

The Terrorist Calculus in Kidnapping Girls in Nigeria: Cases from Chibok and Dapchi

Jacob Zenn

February 15, 2018

Letters from Home: Hezbollah Mothers and the Culture of Martyrdom

Kendall Bianchi