The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) broadly defined the term financing of terrorism as “the financial support, in any form, of terrorism or of those who encourage, plan or engage in it.” The need to track ...

Even in the twenty-first century, many of us retain the sense that women are the gentler sex, the nurturers, and the protectors.  But modern militancy is dangerously misunderstood unless the counterterrorism and intelligence communities confront the fact that females have been and are fighting ...

When we try to use anthropology to more effectively conduct war, we can find ourselves with a flawed understanding of both culture and warfare. In theory, the consideration of culture is a good thing, and cultural insight can be especially helpful in a time of military occupation ...

The month of November is host to the US federal holiday called Veterans Day. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marked the official start of the armistice that brought the First World War to a close, ...

The fifth annual international sniper competition, known as Golden Owl–2014, took place in June at the Spassk Training Center near the city of Karagandy, Republic of Kazakhstan. This event was held under the auspices of the Central Asia Forum for Sniper Arts, as part of ...

This interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTAP).  On 28 March 2014, Lieutenant Colonel Chok Dhakal of the Nepalese Army spoke with ...

A Line In The Sand:  Lately I have been thinking about evil—not just any evil, but the truly horrible acts that some people are capable of, the evil that manifests in individuals who delight in taking life, who draw sadistic pleasure from destroying lives, or who are profoundly amoral and feel no regard for the suffering ...

Militant Groups in South Asia:  A tragedy is a tragedy. Words are no compensation for the pain inflicted by terrorist bullets. Time can gradually offer some healing touch, however, and the reopened Nariman House in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, provides a reality check on the events that took ...

The Potential of Transnational Cinema to Counter Islamic Extremism:  It is well recognized among US strategists and policy makers that the so-called War on Terror is a “war of ideas” in which the Western world needs to “tell its story better.” Much has been written about the use of new social media such as Twitter ...