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 March 11, 2015 ISIS Gets Kicked Off Twitter: Will they evolve or devolve on the Internet? Thousands of ISIS member Twitter accounts have been shutdown over the past two weeks by Twitter. The implications are apparently dire... Read more »
Geopoliticus February 18, 2015 The White House CVE Summit: What should we expect? More of the same or a new direction to counter ISIS? Yesterday, Vice President Joseph Biden kicked off the much anticipated White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). He... Read more »
Geopoliticus January 7, 2015 Who attacked Charlie Hebdo in Paris? Assessing a Jihadi Attack in The West, ISIS vs al Qaeda Today’s terrorist attack in Paris killed 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine; presumably for their perceived insults... 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 29, 2014 “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.)... 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 September 17, 2014 China and the Islamic State The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria might seem far removed from China. But the spread of its sort... 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 »