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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.

September 24, 2013

AQAP’s Resilience in Yemen

Andrew Michaels, Sakhr Ayyash

Pakistani Fighters Joining the War in Syria

Zia Ur Rehman

August 27, 2013

The Battle for Qusayr: How the Syrian Regime and Hizb Allah Tipped the Balance

Nicholas Blanford

Hizb Allah’s Gambit in Syria

Matthew Levitt, Aaron Y. Zelin

Iran’s Unwavering Support to Assad’s Syria

Karim Sadjadpour

Israel’s Response to the Crisis in Syria

Arie Perliger

Turkey’s Tangled Syria Policy

Hugh Pope

Syria: A Wicked Problem for All

Bryan Price

July 23, 2013

Al-Qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb’s Tunisia Strategy

Aaron Y. Zelin, Andrew Lebovich, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

June 25, 2013

Rebellion, Development and Security in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas

Hassan Abbas, Shehzad H. Qazi

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