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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.

March 29, 2018

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

Can the UAE and its Security Forces Avoid a Wrong Turn in Yemen?

Michael Horton

How al-Qa`ida Lost Control of its Syrian Affiliate: The Inside Story

Charles Lister

January 24, 2018

The Potential Jihadi Windfall from the Militarization of Tunisia’s Border Region with Libya

Anouar Boukhars

Red on Red: Analyzing Afghanistan’s Intra-Insurgency Violence

Matthew DuPée

The Evolution of Shi`a Insurgency in Bahrain

Michael Knights, Matthew Levitt

December 21, 2017

A View from the CT Foxhole: Joseph Felter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia

Bryan Price

Insurgents Again: The Islamic State’s Calculated Reversion to Attrition in the Syria-Iraq Border Region and Beyond

Hassan Hassan

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