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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.

December 21, 2017

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

Hassan Hassan

November 27, 2017

The Curse of Cain: Why Fratricidal Jihadis Fail to Learn from Their Mistakes

Mohammed Hafez

September 21, 2017

Al-Qa`ida in Pakistan: A Metric Problem?

Don Rassler

A View from the CT Foxhole: An Interview with Brian Fishman, Counterterrorism Policy Manager, Facebook

Paul Cruickshank

September 7, 2017

Hamza bin Ladin: From Steadfast Son to Al-Qa`ida’s Leader in Waiting

Ali Soufan

August 16, 2017

Predicting the Shape of Iraq’s Next Sunni Insurgencies

Michael Knights

The Mujahidat Dilemma: Female Combatants and the Islamic State

Charlie Winter, Devorah Margolin

Banning Encryption to Stop Terrorists: A Worse than Futile Exercise

Aaron Brantly

June 27, 2017

Terror in Tehran: The Islamic State Goes to War with the Islamic Republic

Chris Zambelis

Crossing the Canal: Why Egypt Faces a Creeping Insurgency

Michael Horton

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