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...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Why would the U.S. want to be ISIS’s ‘Far Enemy’?
A nation must think before it acts.
Tag Archive: ISIS
How does the U.S. counter al Qaeda while al Qaeda fights itself?
(This is the fifth and final installment of the “Smarter Counterterrorism” series. See Part 1 here, Part 2 here,...
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...
ISIS’s Rise After al Qaeda’s House of Cards – Part 4 of “Smarter Counterterrorism”
(This is Part 4 of Smarter Counterterrorism, see Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here) Ayman al-Zawahiri must...
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...
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. ...
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...