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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.

June 15, 2008

Iran’s Shi`a Reach Out to Mainstream Salafists

Alex Vatanka

A Global Counter-Insurgency Campaign Plan for the War on Terror

Colonel James H. Johnson, U.S. Army

When to Confront Mahdists

Reidar Visser

May 15, 2008

Iraq’s Ho Chi Minh Trail

James Denselow

The Funding Methods of FATA’s Terrorists and Insurgents

April 15, 2008

After Action Report

Major Jeremy Gwinn, U.S. Army

Al-Qa`ida in Yemen’s 2008 Campaign

Gregory D. Johnsen

Al-Qa`ida’s Finances

Matthew Levitt

AQIM’s Expanding Internationalist Agenda

Andrew Black

Nanomanagement

Major Tommy Sowers, U.S. Army

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