Geopoliticus November 4, 2015 U.S. Troops in Syria: A Quick Assessment Of The U.S. Strategy To Combat The Islamic State – One Year On Last week, the White House announced the deployment of a few dozen Special Forces soldiers to Syria. After more... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 26, 2015 Russia returns as al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s ‘Far Enemy’ The Soviet defeat and subsequent withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 left victorious Arab mujahideen adrift. Many retired from their... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 15, 2015 The Islamic State Online: Countering the Symptom Rather Than The Disease May Only Make Them Stronger The 2016 Presidential campaigns have swung into full gear and tough talk about countering the Islamic State grows by... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 9, 2015 Can the Islamic State hijack September 11 from Zawahiri’s al Qaeda? September 9, 2015 The increasingly reclusive Aymen al-Zawahiri sprung up his ugly head this week with a new lecture... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 25, 2015 Are We Our Own Worst Enemy? The Problems in Countering Jihadi Narratives and How to Fix Them Two weeks back, the Washington Post published the most insightful article to date on the challenges the U.S. government... Read more »
Geopoliticus May 16, 2015 Why the U.S. Raid On Abu Sayyaf and ISIS in Eastern Syria May Be A Game Changer This morning, reports confirmed that U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted a daring raid deep into Eastern Syria killing a... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 8, 2015 One year later, ISIS overtakes al Qaeda: What’s next? A year ago, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) was on the rise but few expected them to travel... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 9, 2014 Al Qaeda versus ISIS: In the campaign for jihad’s top slot, Yemen is a swing state. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) rise began in the summer of 2013 but became fully evident... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 2, 2014 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... Read more »
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 »