Assessing U.S. Counterterrorism Strategies
iF: The Obama administration decided to abandon the term "war on terror" in favor of "overseas contingency operation." Is this a semantic shift, or...
Playing with Fire in Pakistan
That a Pakistani-born U.S. national was responsible for the latest attempted terrorist attack on U.S. soil should come as little surprise. Pakistan has stood,...
Remote Control Counterterrorism
Targeted killings have become the nation's primary tool in the war on terrorism. The rise of remote-control counterterrorism has come about as the result...
Preclusionary Engagement
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator, known to modernity simply as Fabius, served as a Roman general during the second century BC. He remains relevant...
Armageddon and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
President Obama recently convened a global summit on the threat of nuclear terrorism, an issue that he considers to be the greatest danger currently...
Countering the Threat from Terrorist Media
The Long War against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms. Yet, for much of the past...
Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach
The United States became painfully aware of the threat posed by global jihadism after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Until that day,...
