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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.

October 3, 2011

A False Foundation? AQAP, Tribes and Ungoverned Spaces in Yemen

July 13, 2011

The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa’ida

Don Rassler, Vahid Brown

December 16, 2010

Self Inflicted Wounds

Anne Stenersen, Bernard Haykel, Brynjar Lia, Marc Lynch, Mohammed M. Hafez, Reuven Paz, Steven Brooke, Vahid Brown

February 25, 2010

The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia

Thomas Hegghammer

June 23, 2023

The Quds Force in Syria: Combatants, Units, and Actions

Pierre Boussel

May 23, 2023

The Targeting of Infrastructure by America’s Violent Far-Right

Colin Clarke, Mollie Saltskog, Michaela Millender, Naureen C. Fink

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan After the Taliban’s Afghanistan Takeover

Abdul Sayed, Tore Hamming

May 19, 2023

Journey to Idlib: An Interview with Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24

Paul Cruickshank

October 8, 2013

Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the Battle for Islam Today

The Muslims in Central Asia and the Upcoming Battle of Islam

Al-Qa`ida Goals and Structure

Open Letter to King Fahd from bin Laden

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