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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 24, 2014

The Future Role of U.S. Counterterrorism Operations in Africa

Michael A. Sheehan, Geoff D. Porter

January 15, 2014

Is AQAP to Blame for the String of Assassinations in Yemen?

Casey L. Coombs, Hannah Poppy

Hizb Allah at War in Syria: Forces, Operations, Effects and Implications

Jeffrey White

Jamaican Organized Crime After The Fall of Dudus Coke

Ioan Grillo

Attacks in the Suez: Security of the Canal at Risk?

Stephen Starr

November 26, 2013

The Evolution of Jihadism in Italy: Rise in Homegrown Radicals

Lorenzo Vidino

The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters: The Newest Obstacles to Peace in the Southern Philippines?

Peter Chalk

Increase in Taliban Efforts to Recruit from Afghan Government and Security Forces

Jami Forbes, Brian Dudley

Syria Proving More Fertile Than Iraq to Al-Qa`ida’s Operations

Brian Fishman

October 24, 2013

The Battle for Syria’s Al-Hasakah Province

Nicholas A. Heras

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