September 29, 2014 12:53 pmPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on “Why Don’t We Go After Assad in Syria First?” – Thoughts on Countering ISIS Part 4
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is derived from Clint Watts’ Ginsburg Lecture delivered at the National Liberty Museum on September 16, 2014.)...
September 18, 2014 1:36 pmPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on 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,...
September 8, 2014 2:35 amPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on 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...
September 2, 2014 4:58 pmPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on Potential Implications of U.S. killing al Shabaab’s Leader In Somalia – Ahmed Godane
Yesterday, after a long pause in overt counterterrorism in Somalia, the U.S. launched a drone strike near Barawe aimed at...
August 27, 2014 3:25 pmPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on 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...
May 5, 2014 1:29 pmPublished by Clint Watts1 Comment
(This is the fifth and final installment of the “Smarter Counterterrorism” series. See Part 1 here, Part 2 here,...
April 21, 2014 1:31 amPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on 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...
March 22, 2014 7:34 pmPublished by Clint Watts1 Comment
(This is Part 4 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here) Ayman al-Zawahiri must...
February 20, 2014 3:52 pmPublished by Clint Watts1 Comment
(Part 3 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here & Part 2 here) Before deciding where to focus and...
February 17, 2014 10:31 pmPublished by Clint WattsComments Off on Treating America’s al Qaeda Addiction – Part 2 of “Smarter Counterterrorism”
(This is the second post in this series, see the initial post at “Smarter Counterterrorism in an Era of Competing...
