Has terrorism changed in any ways that have changed intelligence requirements, or the way in which the business of gathering information about terrorists and their organizations has to be done?

I would like to talk about roles and missions based on the various points that were brought up in the previous discussion on the changing character of terrorism. As a transition to that, could we talk a bit about intelligence requirements for terrorism, keeping in mind all the varieties that we have talked about? We talked about organizations, and dispersed organizations like al Qaeda, and individuals who suddenly pop up...

On 29 January 2007, I opened my e-mail to discover that a colleague and friend, Jim Gray, was feared to be lost at sea. A noted computer scientist and Turing Award winner, Gray had failed to return the day before from a solo trip aboard his 40-foot sailboat Tenacious to the Farallon Islands, which lie about 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco. Over the next several days, I observed a massive search effort spring into action...

Large areas of central India have come under the cloud of a violent struggle between government forces and Maoist insurgents. The Maoists are active in at least nine out of the 28 states of India, and are trying to spread their influence into many more states.1 About 5,772 civilians and 2,065 members of the security forces were killed by the Maoists between 2001 and 2012. A majority of the civilians who have died in the violence were local tribal members, killed by insurgents who were enforcing Maoist hegemony over contested areas...

I would like to suggest we not restrict our discussion to the issue of sharing intelligence between nations, but that we also consider the domestic experience represented by the participants in this meeting. In the United States, we have a lot of problems with information and intelligence sharing, both within the federal government and between the federal government and the states...

One of the first and most successful cases of terrorism prevention in American history is also one of the least known. The case involved what the U.S. government later called a conspiracy "to levy a war of urban terrorism against the United States." A group of men plotted to bomb a number of targets in the New York City area, including the federal building at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, which housed the New York headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the United Nations (UN) Headquarters building...

This interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTAP). On 12 December 2013, writer and director Peter Berg came to Monterey, California, for a special pre-release screening of his new film, Lone Survivor. Based on the book of the same title by Marcus Luttrell, the film depicts Operation Red Wings...

This interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTAP).1 On 12 December 2013, writer and director Peter Berg came to Monterey, California, for a special pre-release screening of his new film, Lone Survivor...

Mark Mazzetti's nonfiction thriller The Way of the Knife cap- MAJ Anthony A. Keller, U.S. Army captures the essence of the relationship between the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), while engaging the reader in a contemporary and easily comprehensible read. 

It's all about "the game." In HBO's The Wire, a crime drama series that aired from 2002 through 2008, the game is centered on the drug trade in present-day Baltimore and on the players' attempts to win—whether as a drug dealer controlling a corner or a police officer trying to make a difference.2 Despite the show's focus on domestic police work, it is full of excellent parallels and lessons that can easily be applied to the special operations and intelligence communities, or any organization that is involved in irregular warfare (IW) or unconventional warfare (UW)...

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