Skip to content

TV image of Osama bin Laden

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.

May 3, 2012

Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?

Nelly Lahoud, Stuart Caudill, Liam Collins, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Don Rassler, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi

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

December 21, 2023

The Path to October 7: How Iran Built Up and Managed a Palestinian ‘Axis of Resistance’

Phillip Smyth

Iraq’s New Regime Change: How Tehran-Backed Terrorist Organizations and Militias Captured the Iraqi State

Michael Knights, Hamdi Malik, Crispin Smith

November 28, 2023

Commentary: No Good Choices: The Counterterrorism Dilemmas in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Asfandyar Mir

Texts or Praxes: How Do We Best Understand Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad After October 7?

Erik Skare

July 3, 2024

Caliphate Complaint Box 385

Caliphate Complaint Box 384

Caliphate Complaint Box 383

Caliphate Complaint Box 382

Stay Informed

Sign up to receive updates from CTC.

Sign up