While the world’s attention is fixed on the activities of the dangerous and ruthless Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or simply IS), there is another militant organization worthy of serious attention. Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), or the Party of Liberation, is a radical Islamist group that, like IS, calls for the uniting of ...
Read MoreNo one questions that terrorists in general, and jihadists in particular, use the internet as their main propaganda tool. Not only have the quantity and quality of the information that jihadists upload evolved over time with the development of the internet, but the strategies used by such groups and individuals to spread their ideology ...
Read MoreAside from the challenges associated with establishing and maintaining security within Afghanistan, government officials are faced with the additional and equally complex task of implementing and maintaining appropriate sustainability measures over the longer term. In this paper, we explore the subject of Afghan security force ...
Read MoreFew militant organizations have gained global prominence as rapidly as Boko Haram (BH), owing to its characteristically unrestrained violence. Research on BH has therefore bourgeoned equally quickly. The Nigerian government, with support from regional states and ...
Read MoreThis interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTAP). On 16 October 2014, Dr. Leo Blanken spoke with photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg about Nickelsberg’s experiences over the past three decades working for Time magazine and the New York Times. Specializing in cultural and political change...
Read MoreSERE on the Silver Screen: The “war movie” genre, typified by tales of face-to-face combat, offers an additional perspective on courage and endurance in human conflict: the prisoner-of-war (POW) film. Stories of criminals (or unjustly sentenced innocents) who are incarcerated and who escape from civil prisons are longstanding favorites in American cinema.
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