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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.

June 5, 2019

From Battlefront to Cyberspace: Demystifying the Islamic State’s Propaganda Machine

Asaad Almohammad, Charlie Winter

December 3, 2018

Allied and Lethal: Islamic State Khorasan’s Network and Organizational Capacity in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Amira Jadoon

August 28, 2018

Pulling Back the Curtain: An Inside Look at the Islamic State’s Media Organization

Daniel Milton

July 24, 2018

Down, but Not Out: An Updated Examination of the Islamic State’s Visual Propaganda

Daniel Milton

July 26, 2023

The General Directorate of Provinces: Managing the Islamic State’s Global Network

Tore Hamming

June 23, 2023

The Quds Force in Syria: Combatants, Units, and Actions

Pierre Boussel

May 23, 2023

The Targeting of Infrastructure by America’s Violent Far-Right

Colin Clarke, Mollie Saltskog, Michaela Millender, Naureen C. Fink

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan After the Taliban’s Afghanistan Takeover

Abdul Sayed, Tore Hamming

October 8, 2013

Letter from Usama Bin Laden to Mukhtar Abu al-Zubayr

Letter from Adam Gadahn

A Suggestion to Change the Name of Al-Qa`ida

Letter from UBL to `Atiyatullah Al-Libi 2

May 10, 2012

Wall Street Journal Cites the CTC Sentinel

May 13, 2011

CTC Commentary on the Death of Usama bin Ladin

Alex Gallo, Don Rassler, Nelly Lahoud, Reid Sawyer, Scott Helfstein, William Braniff

December 2, 2009

Assessing Somalia’s Terror Threat

International Relations Security Network

November 20, 2009

Local Links to Master Taliban Strategist

The Australian

May 9, 2011

Perspectives on Terrorism Publishes Bill Braniff & Assaf Moghadam

Assaf Moghadam, William Braniff

April 1, 2011

Revisiting the Early Al Qaeda: An Updated Account of its Formative Years

Peter Bergen, Paul Cruickshank

October 12, 2010

The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction

Nelly Lahoud

November 8, 2008

Al-Qa’ida Secedes From Iraq

Brian Fishman

November 17, 2011

CTC Lectures at World Affairs Council

Brian Dodwell

October 6, 2010

Professor Bruce Hoffman Presents Lecture to Cadets

Bruce Hoffman

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