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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.

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

September 11, 2024

Islamic State-Somalia: A Growing Global Terror Concern

Caleb Weiss, Lucas Webber

A View from the CT Foxhole: Rosalind Nyawira, Former Director, National Counter Terrorism Centre – Kenya

Kristina Hummel, Samuel Bowles

Commentary: The Global Jihadi Terror Threat in September 2024

Edmund Fitton-Brown

August 13, 2024

The History and Future of the Nordic Resistance Movement

Peter Smith

July 3, 2024

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