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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 15, 2008

Jihad After Iraq

Mohammed M. Hafez

Jihadists Target the American Dream

Brian Fishman

Mapping the Factional Structure of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq

Michael Gabbay

February 15, 2008

After Action Report

First Lieutenant Jon Patrick Cheatwood

Counter-Terrorism Issues for the Next President

Richard Clarke, Rob Knake

Deconstructing the Myth about al-Qa`ida and Khobar

Thomas Hegghammer

Radical Madrasas in Southeast Asia

Jeremy Ginges, Justin Magouirk, Scott Atran

Return of the Arabs

Brian Glyn Williams

Somalia’s al-Shabab Reconstitutes Fighting Force

Anonymous

Takeovers of Moderate Muslim Institutions

Madeleine Gruen

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