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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.

March 22, 2012

Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya

Aaron Y. Zelin, Andrew Lebovich

The Rabbani Assassination: Taliban Strategy to Weaken National Unity?

Michael Gabbay

February 16, 2012

The Complicated Relationship Between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban

Daud Khattak

Hizb Allah’s Counterintelligence War

Benedetta Berti

The Merger of Al-Shabab and Qa`idat al-Jihad

Nelly Lahoud

January 18, 2012

Al-Shabab’s Western Recruitment Strategy

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship in the Year Ahead

Ahmed Rashid

November 30, 2011

Government Hardliners Gain Favor in Bahrain

Laurence Louër

Terrorist Threats to Commercial Aviation: A Contemporary Assessment

Ben Brandt

Al-Qa`ida’s Center of Gravity in a Post-Bin Ladin World

Mitchell D. Silber

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