Most experts agree that the most successful counter-messaging campaigns against ISIS are the ones that use the voices of insiders - both ISIS victims and ISIS cadres who have firsthand knowledge of the group's brutality, corruption, religious manipulation, and deception...
Read MoreWhen the Mongols invaded parts of Europe in the early thirteenth century, they possessed an uncontested cavalry, highly sophisticated siege weapons, great discipline, and unmatched tactics and strategies. They defeated the great empires of the East and tried to achieve similar successes by expanding west into a vulnerable Europe that was weakened by the struggle between the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX...
Read MoreThe Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced armed conflict both internally and with its neighbors since the mid-1990s. The presence of a variety of armed groups, including foreign fighters, Congolese militias, and rebel forces, has become a major obstacle to peace and security in the region...
Read MoreThe United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) was established by UNSecurity Council Resolution 1996 (2011) to “consolidate peace and security, and help establish conditions for development in the Republic of South Sudan.”Over the past few years, however, UNMISS has been highly criticized by the international community for failing to carry out its mandate...
Read MoreThis interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTA P). On 21 March 2018, noted military historian Max Boot visited the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, where he and Major Anders Hamlin discussed Boot’s recently published biography of Edward Lansdale and the legacy of Lansdale’s efforts to establish and support stable governments in the Philippines and Vietnam between 1950 and 1957...
Read MoreThis interview is taken from the collection of the Combating Terrorism Archive Project (CTA P). On 12 September 2016, Reza Marashi, research director at the National Iranian American Council, visited the USNaval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California...
Read MoreThe violent Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram exhibits a rare ideological complexity compared to other similar movements. Over time, the group grafted political motives and religious pretexts onto the core economic and social grievances that gave birth to it. Now, after seven years of conflict between Boko Haram and the Nigerian army in northeastern Nigeria, the humanitarian situation is catastrophic, and the socioeconomic fabric of the region is completely devastated...
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