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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.

August 9, 2022

The Death of Ayman al-Zawahiri: Succession Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Other Implications

Don Rassler, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

The Taliban One Year On

Andrew Watkins

July 19, 2022

The Relentless Terrorist: A Profile of Muaz al-Fizani

Matteo Pugliese

The Buffalo Attack: The Cumulative Momentum of Far-Right Terror

Amarnath Amarasingam, Marc-André Argentino, Graham Macklin

June 23, 2022

Undermining Democracy and Exploiting Clients: The Wagner Group’s Nefarious Activities in Africa

Christopher Faulkner

External Impacts and the Extremism Question in the War in Ukraine: Considerations for Practitioners

Don Rassler

A Trickle, Not a Flood: The Limited 2022 Far-Right Foreign Fighter Mobilization to Ukraine

Kacper Rekawek

CTC-ICT Focus on Israel: What Can We Learn from the Spring 2022 Terror Wave in Israel

Boaz Ganor

April 14, 2022

A View from the CT Foxhole: David Caulfield, Former Chief, Defense Combating Terrorism Center, Defense Intelligence Agency

Richard M. Yon, Don Rassler, Nakissa Jahanbani

March 31, 2022

The Security Threat Posed by the Corona-skeptic Querdenken Movement in Germany

Daniel H. Heinke

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