Geopoliticus September 18, 2014 Seven Flaws In the U.S. Strategy to Counter ISIS (Editor’s Note: This blog post is derived from Clint Watts’ Ginsburg Lecture delivered at the National Liberty Museum on September 16,... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 8, 2014 The U.S. Can’t Destroy ISIS, Only ISIS Can Destroy ISIS – The Unfortunate Merits of the “Let Them Rot” Strategy During the early 1990s the Algerian government fought one of the nastiest civil wars in recent history against a... 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 23, 2014 Israel: Has ‘Old Guard’ al Qaeda Shifted Focus? Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post followed later by the New York Times reported that three Palestinians seeking to attack targets... 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 December 2, 2013 Do al Qaeda Affiliates Actually Have a Plan? The rise of many jihadi affiliates around the Africa and the Middle East has renewed the American media quest... 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 »
Geopoliticus August 5, 2013 Al-Qaeda Plots, NSA Intercepts & the Era Of Terrorism Competition This weekend, the U.S. closed 22 of its embassies throughout the Middle East and North Africa in response to... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 17, 2013 Al Qaeda in Iraq publicly rebuts al Qaeda’s leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Two months ago, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI – al Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate) announced its merger with Jabhat... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 28, 2013 Is Jordan Forever Destined to Play Second Fiddle? Jordan has never been the star, the key player, or the pivot around which some major international deal has... Read more »