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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.

November 30, 2016

The Consequences of Russia’s ‘Counterterrorism’ Campaign in Syria

Brian Glyn Williams, Robert Souza

November 10, 2016

The Islamic State’s External Operations and the French-Belgian Nexus

Jean-Charles Brisard, Kevin Jackson

October 25, 2016

Lessons from the Fifteen-Year Counterterrorism Campaign

Andrew Liepman, Philip Mudd

Losing Mosul, Regenerating in Diyala: How the Islamic State Could Exploit Iraq’s Sectarian Tinderbox

Michael Knights, Alexander Mello

Revising the History of al-Qa`ida’s Original Meeting with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Brian Fishman

A View from the CT Foxhole: An Interview with LTG(R) Charles T. Cleveland, former Commanding General, USASOC

Kristina Hummel

October 17, 2016

Unseating the Caliphate: Contrasting the Challenges of Liberating Fallujah and Mosul

Zana Gulmohamad

September 7, 2016

A View from the CT Foxhole: An Interview with John Brennan, Director, CIA

Paul Cruickshank, Brian Dodwell

The Dawn of Mass Jihad: Success in Syria Fuels al-Qa`ida’s Evolution

Charles Lister

Fifteen Years On, Where Are We in the “War on Terror”?

Brian Michael Jenkins

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