Geopoliticus August 27, 2014 Why would the U.S. want to be ISIS’s ‘Far Enemy’? For Osama Bin Laden, the calculation to attack the U.S. seemed simple. To topple apostate regimes throughout the Middle... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 5, 2014 How does the U.S. counter al Qaeda while al Qaeda fights itself? (This is the fifth and final installment of the “Smarter Counterterrorism” series. See Part 1 here, Part 2 here,... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 21, 2014 Would jihad’s new generation kill off al-Qaeda’s global leader Ayman al-Zawahiri? In November of 1989, a car passed through a street in Peshawar, Pakistan only to be demolished by a... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 22, 2014 ISIS’s Rise After al Qaeda’s House of Cards – Part 4 of “Smarter Counterterrorism” (This is Part 4 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here) Ayman al-Zawahiri must... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 20, 2014 Jihadi Competition After al Qaeda Hegemony – The ‘Old Guard’, Team ISIS & The Battle For Jihadi Hearts & Minds (Part 3 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here & Part 2 here) Before deciding where to focus and... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 6, 2014 In Syria, an al Qaeda group falls victim to other Islamists and jihadists The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (a.k.a. ISIS) for many months dominated the jihadi landscape in Syria. ... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 14, 2013 Zawahiri’s Latest Message: Please Listen To Me Jihadis, Stop Bickering While it’s not uncommon to see Ayman al-Zawahiri wagging his finger in a quarterly or semi-annual propaganda video spewing... Read more »