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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.

February 27, 2015

Digging In and Trafficking Out: How the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Funds Terrorism

Brigadier General (Ret.) Russell Howard, Jonathan Prohov, Marc Elliott

The Role of Child Soldiers in a Multigenerational Movement

Cole Pinheiro

Terrorist Targeting of the Libyan Oil and Gas Sector

Geoff D. Porter

Hezbollah: Pulled between Resistance to Israel and Defense of Syria

A View From the CT Foxhole: An Interview With Captain Robert A. Newson, Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

Brian Dodwell, Marielle Ness

January 20, 2015

Britain’s Terror Threat from the Levant

Raffaello Pantucci

A View from the CT Foxhole: An Interview with Major General Wayne W. Grigsby, Jr., Commander, CJTF-HoA

Bryan Price

From Sydney to Paris: The Return of Terrorist Barricade Hostage Incidents?

Adam Dolnik

The Paris Attack: A Campaign and its Goals

Brian Dodwell

December 10, 2014

A Classical Analysis of the 2014 Israel-Hamas Conflict

Elad Popovich

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