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2018 Ramadan Radicals: Revenge and Redemption - Potential Actors, Motivators, and Dates

Thu, 04/26/2018 - 7:23pm
Ramadan is an opportunity to encourage and initiate increased attacks, suicide bombings, and carnage against perceived enemies around the world, regardless of nationality, location, or religious affiliation. Virtually everything about these attacks and the motivation behind them goes against the core teaching of the Qur'an.

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Jihadi Generations: Strategies Used for Weaponizing Children (Part 1)

Tue, 04/24/2018 - 12:17am
Violent extremist groups are using all methods possible to wage a successful long-term campaign using children. These groups infiltrate existing systems, threaten and radicalize important players, use extreme forms of violence to attack those they perceive as non-compliant. No foundation of society is off limits.

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Clausewitz as an Immovable Object or the Need for a New War Theory in the Study of Warfare in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria SWJED Fri, 09/22/2017 - 10:55pm

On Carl von Clausewitz: What is less spoken of is his study of small wars and people’s war.

The Fires Next Time: The ISIS Terrorist Threat in the West SWJED Thu, 09/21/2017 - 4:38am

ISIS has ambitious plans for continuing to stage attacks around the world. As part of this, we must consider the danger of ISIS organizing a terrorist underground in the West.