Geopoliticus November 7, 2016 The False Promise of Drone Strikes? Ease vs. Effectiveness Over the weekend, the Pentagon announced that Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) Farouq al-Qahtani (also known as Nayf Salam... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 22, 2016 Brussels’ Big Terrorism Problem: Is This the Islamic State? On this morning of March 22, 2016, the long tail of terrorism once again struck Europe. Less than a... Read more »
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 February 17, 2014 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... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 10, 2014 Smarter Counterterrorism in The Age of Competing Al Qaeda’s Last week Ayman al- Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s global leader publicly dissolved the relationship between al Qaeda Central and the... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 18, 2013 How Snowden Strengthens U.S. Efforts Against Jihadi Terrorism The Snowden leak of thousands of NSA documents has been a nightmare for the organization. No intelligence organization that... Read more »