War Goes Viral
By Emerson T. Brooking & Peter W. Singer The Atlantic Like most everything today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a […]
Tag Archives: Islamic State
Chasing ISIS Through Europe
By Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed The assignment given to the Belgian police in the summer of 2014 was straightforward but high stakes: Follow two men suspected of involvement with ISIS through […]
How the Arab World Came Apart
By Scott Anderson The New York Times Magazine History never flows in a predictable way. It is always a result of seemingly random currents and incidents, the significance of which […]
ISIS and the Social Media War
By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]
The Strategic Logic of Russia’s Withdrawal from Syria
By Vuk Vuksanovic Pulse Love him or hate him, but for better or worse Russian President Vladimir Putin has a talent for surprising the world. After six months of Russian […]
The Birth of Boko Haram
By Andrew Walker The Guardian In February 2009, I was at a motor park in Maraba, a satellite of the Nigerian capital Abuja, looking for motorcyclists wearing dried vegetables on […]
The Utility of Crises in International Affairs
By Jeffrey A. Stacey Foreign Affairs In the days after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 aircraft, the world waited to see how Russian President Vladimir Putin and his advisers […]
Reclaiming the Initiative From Russia
By Jeffrey Gedmin The American Interest “In the history of warfare I do not recollect a more fortunate retreat”, one of George Washington’s closest aides once said. The reference was […]
Syria and Turkey’s Place in the New Cold War
By Joseph Dana The National Russia’s grand foray into the Syrian civil war has analysts and policymakers scrambling to make sense of Vladimir Putin’s long-term plans. Let’s be clear, Moscow […]
Does Terrorism Work?
By David A. Graham The Atlantic Nearly 14 years into the war on terror, there are signs of terrorism all around us, from Memorial Day tributes to the victims of […]
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