Every wife of an Afghan soldier or policemen killed in the line of duty is eligible for regular payments from her husband’s service branch equal to his salary. The widows of civilians killed in terrorist attacks are to be given 5,000 afghanis per month, or about USD$80. If you ask these women how much they’ve actually received, however...

Denmark has a long tradition of contributing to stabilization engagements. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Denmark was heavily involved in peacemaking and peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, specifically in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo  ...

The Sri Lankan Army, the “Guardian of the Nation,” fulfilled its duty to the motherland in 2009 by eradicating terrorism from the island after three decades of ruthless war. After the war ended, the rehabilitation and reconstruction of war-affected areas in the north and east became particularly important for national development. Compared with the rest  ...

Armed with this Qur’anic verse, Karim Bourti, a member of the transnationa lSalafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in North Africa, explained his pride in considering himself “a Muslim terrorist,” saying he “loves” the model terrorist of this new century. “All those who are sincere with Allah support OsamaBin Laden. Any Muslim who doesn’t love Bin Laden has hypocrisy in his heart.”

I see dead strategists. Let me help you see them, too. For just a moment, avert your gaze from the latest Islamic State attacks and atrocities. Instead, concentrate along with me on catching a glimpse of the three ghosts who haunt the halls of the US Pentagon and the central military administrations of most developed nations—the three ghosts who drive policy in costly, counterproductive directions and keep much of the world in a permanent state of chaos.   ...

 This interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTAP). Dr. Letitia Lawson teaches courses on security, government and politics, history, and cultures in Africa. She frequently travels to the African continent as a faculty member for the Center for CivilMilitary Relations (CCMR). Colonel Michael Mensch, former Africa program manager for CCMR, is currently a consultant on African affairs. On 8 December 2015, Nick Tomb talked with Dr. Lawson and COL Mensch about security and counterterrorism across the African continent...

Whenever I have attempted to teach the concept of principled ethics in a class or at a briefing over the past eight years, I have asked those present to consider whether they hold any principle to be so fundamental to who they are that they are willing to “go to the mat” over it...