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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.

November 26, 2013

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

Kirkuk’s Multidimensional Security Crisis

Derek Henry Flood

The Nairobi Attack and Al-Shabab’s Media Strategy

Christopher Anzalone

September 24, 2013

The Current State of Mexico’s Many Drug Cartels

Malcolm Beith

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

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