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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point contributes relevant scholarly perspectives through education, research and policy analysis to combat terrorist threats to the United States. We maintain expertise in four primary areas: terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security, and weapons of mass destruction. By developing a curriculum of the highest quality, producing theoretically informed studies, and crafting relevant policy recommendations, we remain an internationally recognized center of excellence dedicated to the advancement of terrorism knowledge and expertise.
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• December 01, 2020 November/December 2020 Issue
  By: Seth G. Jones, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, Jason Warner, Ryan O'Farrell, Heni Nsaibia, Ryan Cummings
• October 15, 2020 Desert Drift, Declining Deadliness: Understanding the Evolution of AQIM’s Suicide Bombings
  By: Jason Warner, Ellen Chapin, Caleb Weiss
• October 01, 2020 October 2020 Issue
  By: Michael Knights, Stephen Hummel, Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Tim Lister, Pete Erickson, Seth Loertscher, David C. Lane, Paul Erickson
• September 24, 2020 The Terrorist Lists: An Examination of the U.S. Government’s Counterterrorism Designations Efforts
  By: Seth Loertscher, Daniel Milton, Bryan C. Price, Cynthia Loertscher
• September 01, 2020 September 2020 Issue
  By: Daniel Milton, Muhammad Al-'Ubaydi, Michael Brian Jenkins, Mohammed Hafez
• August 01, 2020 August 2020 Issue
  By: J. Kenneth Wickiser, Kevin J. O'Donovan, Michael Washington, Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo, Raffaello Pantucci, Nuno Tiago Pinto, Tomasz Rolbiecki, Pieter Van Ostaeyen, Charlie Winter
• July 20, 2020 Rising in the East: A Regional Overview of the Islamic State’s Operations in Southeast Asia
  By: Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani, Charmaine Willis
• July 01, 2020 July 2020 Issue
  By: Heni Nsaibia, Caleb Weiss, Seth Loertscher, Nick Kramer, Robin Simcox, Hannah Stuart, Amarnath Amarasingam, Marc-Andre Argentino
• June 23, 2020 Homecoming: Considerations for Rehabilitating and Reintegrating Islamic State-Affiliated Minors
  By: Liesbeth van der Heide, Audrey Alexander
• June 01, 2020 June 2020 Issue
  By: Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Audrey Alexander, Chelsea Daymon, Meili Criezis, Christopher Hockey, Michael Jones, Mark Dubowitz, Saeed Ghasseminejad, Nikita Malik
• May 01, 2020 May 2020 Issue
  By: Eran Benedek, Neil Simon, Michael Knights, Alex Almeida, Mette Mayli Albaek, Puk Damasgard, Mahmoud Shiekh Ibrahim, Troels Kingo, Jens Vithner, Nakissa Jahanbani
• April 02, 2020 Small Groups, Big Weapons: The Nexus of Emerging Technologies and Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism
  By: Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo
• April 01, 2020 April 2020 Issue
  By: Andrew Zammit, Jason Warner, Thomas Renard , Tim Lister
• March 23, 2020 Broken, but Not Defeated: An Examination of State-led Operations against Islamic State Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2015-2018)
  By: Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines
• March 01, 2020 March 2020 Issue
  By: Blyth Crawford, Florence Keen, Raffaello Pantucci, Colin P. Clarke, Lorenzo Vidino, Jon Lewis, Andrew Mines, Christopher Anzalone
• February 01, 2020 February 2020 Issue
  By: Matthew Levitt, Jason Warner, Amarnath Amarasingam, Annie Fixler, Bennett Clifford, Caleb Weiss
• January 01, 2020 January 2020 Issue
  By: Paul Cruickshank, Michael Knights, Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, Charlie Winter, Seth Loertscher, Ariane Tabatabai, Gina Vale
• December 01, 2019 December 2019 Issue
  By: Graham Macklin, Don Rassler, Daniel Koehler, Tore Hamming
• November 01, 2019 November 2019 Issue
  By: Ali Soufan, Brian Dodwell, Paul Cruickshank, Kristina Hummel, Michael Horton, Christopher Wright
• October 30, 2019 Minor Misery: What an Islamic State Registry Says About the Challenges of Minors in the Conflict Zone
  By: Daniel Milton, Don Rassler
• October 01, 2019 October 2019 Issue
  By: Seth G. Jones, Paul Cruickshank, Brian Dodwell, Daniel Milton, Julia Lodoen, Ryan O'Farrell, Seth Loertscher, Damien Spleeters, Michael Shkolnik, Alexander Corbeil
• September 01, 2019 September 2019 Issue
  By: Daniel Byman, Paul Cruickshank, Brian Dodwell, Amira Jadoon, Andrew Mines, Julie Chernov Hwang, Aaron Y. Zelin, Katherine Bauer
• July 01, 2019 July 2019 Issue
  By: Matt Bryden, Premdeep Bahra, Paul Cruickshank, Graham Macklin, Joana Cook, Gina Vale, Robin Simcox
• June 05, 2019 From Battlefront to Cyberspace: Demystifying the Islamic State’s Propaganda Machine
  By: Asaad Almohammad, Charlie Winter
• June 01, 2019 May/June 2019 Issue
  By: Amarnath Amarasingam, Brian Michael Jenkins, Paul Cruickshank, Mitchell D. Silber, Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside, Charlie Winter
• April 01, 2019 April 2019 Issue
  By: Aaron Edwards, Paul Cruickshank, Stephen Hummel, Douglas McNair, F. John Burpo, James Bonner, Audrey Alexander, Bennett Clifford, Caleb Weiss
• April 01, 2019 August 2019 Issue
  By: Michael Knights, Raffaello Pantucci, Adrian Shtuni, Kujtim Bytyqi, Sam Mullins, Ross Dayton
• March 01, 2019 March 2019 Issue
  By: Matthew Levitt, Kristina Hummel, Petter Nesser, Lachlan Wilson, Jason Pack, Geoff D. Porter
• February 01, 2019 A Hollow Victory Over the Islamic State in Syria? The High Risk of Jihadi Revival in Deir ez-Zor's Euphrates River Valley
  By: Hassan Hassan, Paul Cruickshank, Stephen Hummel, F. John Burpo, James Bonner, Ross Dayton
• January 01, 2019 January 2019 Issue
  By: Tore Hamming, Paul Cruickshank, Graham Macklin, Bryce Loidolt, Jami Forbes
• December 01, 2018 December 2018 Issue
  By: Michael Knights, Brian Dodwell, Harun Maruf, Dan Joseph, Amira Jadoon, Sara Mahmood, Bennett Clifford, Seamus Hughes
• December 01, 2018 Allied and Lethal: Islamic State Khorasan’s Network and Organizational Capacity in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  By: Amira Jadoon
• November 01, 2018 November 2018 Issue
  By: Ali Soufan, Paul Cruickshank, Nuno Tiago Pinto, Damon Mehl, Michael Munoz
• October 01, 2018 October 2018 Issue
  By: Hassan Hassan, Paul Cruickshank, Cole Bunzel, Jami Forbes
• September 01, 2018 September 2018 Issue
  By: Bryant Neal Viñas, Mitchell D. Silber, Brian Dodwell, Paul Cruickshank, Michael Knights, Audrey Alexander, Rebecca Turkington, Derek Henry Flood
• August 01, 2018 August 2018 Issue
  By: Florian Flade, Paul Cruickshank, Matt Levitt, Geoff D. Porter, Jason Warner, Charlotte Hulme
• August 01, 2018 Pulling Back the Curtain: An Inside Look at the Islamic State’s Media Organization
  By: Daniel Milton
• July 01, 2018 June/July 2018 Issue
  By: Kirsten E. Schulze, Brian Dodwell, Dakota Foster, Daniel Milton, David Sterman, Robin Simcox
• July 01, 2018 Down, but Not Out: An Updated Examination of the Islamic State’s Visual Propaganda
  By: Daniel Milton
• July 01, 2018 The Islamic State and Drones: Supply, Scale, and Future Threats
  By: Don Rassler
• July 01, 2018 Boko Haram Beyond the Headlines: Analyses of Africa’s Enduring Insurgency
  By: Jacob Zenn, et al
• May 01, 2018 May 2018 Issue
  By: Brian Glyn Williams, Robert Troy Souza, Bryan Price, Mikki Franklin, Daniel Milton, Brian Dodwell, Bennett Clifford, Christian Jokinen
• April 01, 2018 April 2018 Issue
  By: Nicholas Tallant, Jesse Morton, Mitchell D. Silber, Scott Atran, Hoshang Waziri, Angel Gomez, Hammad Sheikh, Lucia Lopez-Rodriguez, Charles Rogan, Richard Davis, Amira Jadoon, Nakissa Jahanbani, Charmaine Willis, Nafees Hamid
• March 01, 2018 March 2018 Issue
  By: Jacob Zenn, Bryan Price, Christopher Anzalone, Heni Nsaibia, Caleb Weiss, Markus K. Binder, Jillian M. Quigley, Herbert F. Tinsley
• February 01, 2018 Exploding Stereotypes: Characteristics of Boko Haram’s Suicide Bombers
  By: Jason Warner, Hilary Matfess
• February 01, 2018 February 2018 Issue
  By: Charles Lister, Raffaello Pantucci, Michael Horton, Kendall Bianchi, Miles Hidalgo
• February 01, 2018 Targeted Terror: The Suicide Bombers of al-Shabaab
  By: Jason Warner, Ellen Chapin
• January 01, 2018 January 2018 Issue
  By: Fernando Reinares, Carola Garcia-Calvo, Paul Cruickshank, Michael Knights, Matther Levitt, Matthew Dupee, Anouar Boukhars
• December 01, 2017 December 2017 Issue
  By: Hassan Hassan, Bryan Price, Goktug Sonmez, Johannes Saal, Ryan Cummings
• November 01, 2017 November 2017 Issue
  By: Jason Warner, Caleb Weiss, Andrew McGregor, Daisy Muibu, Benjamin P. Nickels, Paul Cruickshank, Mohammed Hafez, Colin P. Clarke, Phillip Smyth
• October 01, 2017 October 2017 Issue
  By: Paul Cruickshank, Derek Henry Flood, John Mueller, Rajan Basra, Peter R. Neumann, Andrew Zammit, Columb Strack
• September 01, 2017 September 2017 Issue
  By: Ali Soufan, Paul Cruickshank, Don Rassler, Colleen McCue, Joseph T. Massengill, Dorothy Milbrandt, John Gaughan, Meghan Cumpston, Nicholas Blanford, Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
• August 01, 2017 August 2017 Issue
  By: Aaron Brantly, Charlie Winter, Devorah Margolin, Michael Knights, Kristina Hummel, Raffaello Pantucci
• July 01, 2017 June / July 2017 Issue
  By: Hassan Hassan, Brian Dodwell, Don Rassler, Fernando Reinares, Carola Garcia-Calvo, Alvaro Vicente, Michael Horton, Chris Zambelis
• June 01, 2017 The Fight Goes On: The Islamic State’s Continuing Military Efforts in Liberated Cities
  By: Daniel S. Hamilton, Muhammad Al-Ubayadi
• May 01, 2017 May 2017 Issue
  By: Paul Cruickshank, Frank Straub, Jennifer Zeunik, Ben Gorban, Franc Milburn, Michele Groppi, John Horgan, Mia Bloom, Chelsea Daymon, Wojciech Kaczkowski, Hicham Tiflati
• April 01, 2017 April 2017 Issue
  By: Sean Yom, Katrina Sammour, Michael Knights, Alexander Mello, Aaron Y. Zelin, Paul Cruickshank, Assaf Moghadam
• March 01, 2017 March 2017 Issue
  By: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Seamus Hughes, Andrew Zammit, Ahmet S. Yayla, Matthew Dupee, Daniel H. Heinke
• February 01, 2017 February 2017 Issue
  By: Georg Heil, Brian Dodwell, Don Rassler, Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Robin Simcox, Shashi Jayakumar, Andrew McGregor
• January 01, 2017 Then and Now: Comparing the Flow of Foreign Fighters to AQI and the Islamic State
  By: Brian Dodwell, Daniel S. Hamilton, Don Rassler
• January 01, 2017 From Cradle to Grave: The Lifecycle of Foreign Fighters in Iraq and Syria
  By: Arie Perlinger, Daniel S. Hamilton
• January 01, 2017 January 2017 Issue
  By: Don Rassler, Emily Corner, Paul Gill, Michael Horton, Jason Warner, Paul Cruickshank
• April 02, 2016 The Caliphate’s Global Workforce: An Inside Look at the Islamic State’s Foreign Fighter Paper Trail
  By: Brian Dodwell, Daniel Milton, Don Rassler
• May 05, 2015 A View from the CT Foxhole
  By: Brian Dodwell, Marielle Ness
• May 05, 2015 Pledging Bay'a: A Benefit or a Burden to the Islamic State?
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• February 05, 2015 A Daunting Triangle: Turkey, the Kurds, and the ISIL Threat
  By: Buddhika Jayamaha
• February 05, 2015 The Paris Attack: A Campaign and its Goals
  By: Brian Dodwell
• October 05, 2014 Financing Terror Bit by Bit
  By: Aaron Brantly
• May 05, 2014 Risky Business: The Global Threat Network and the Politics of Contraband
  By: Scott Helfstein
• May 05, 2014 Boko Haram and the Kidnapping of the Chibok Schoolgirls
  By: Zia Ur Rehman, Jacob Zenn
• April 05, 2014 Guns, Money and Prayers: AQIM's Blueprint for Securing Control of Northern Mali
  By: Morten Bøås
• March 05, 2014 The War of Jihadists Against Jihadists in Syria
  By: Nelly Lahoud, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi
• February 05, 2014 The Future Role of U.S. Counterterrorism Operations in Africa
  By: Michael A. Sheehan, Geoff D. Porter
• January 05, 2014 Attacks in the Suez: Security of the Canal at Risk?
  By: Stephen Starr
• December 05, 2013 Jihadi Discourse in the Wake of the Arab Spring
  By: Nelly Lahoud
• November 05, 2013 Syria Proving More Fertile Than Iraq to Al-Qa'ida's Operations
  By: Brian Fishman
• October 05, 2013 The Nairobi Attack and Al-Shabab's Media Strategy
  By: Christopher Anzalone
• September 05, 2013 The Risk of Non-State Actors Acquiring Chemical Weapons in Syria
  By: Stephen Hummel
• August 05, 2013 Syria: A Wicked Problem for All
  By: Bryan C. Price
• July 05, 2013 The Risks Posed by Jihadist Hackers
  By: Christopher Heffelfinger
• November 05, 2012 The Challenges of Retaking Northern Mali
  By: Martin van Vliet
• October 05, 2012 Boko Haram's Dangerous Expansion into Northwest Nigeria
  By: Jacob Zenn
• August 05, 2012 A Fight for the Spoils: The Future Role of Syria's Armed Groups
  By: Stephen Starr
• July 05, 2012 Haqqani Network Financing: The Evolution of an Industry
  By: Gretchen Peters
• July 05, 2012 Between Islamization and Secession: The Contest for Northern Mali
  By: Derek Henry Flood
• June 05, 2012 Beware of Imitators: al-Qa' ida through the lens of its Confidential Secretary
  By: Nelly Lahoud
• June 05, 2012 Arc of Convergence: AQAP, Ansar al-Shari'a and the Struggle for Yemen
  By: Christopher Swift
• May 05, 2012 The Abbottabad Documents: Bin Ladin's Security Measures
  By: Liam Collins
• May 05, 2012 Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?
  By: Nelly Lahoud, Don Rassler, Stuart Caudill, Liam Collins, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Muhammad al-`Ubaydi
• April 05, 2012 An Overview of Syria's Armed Revolution
  By: Derek Henry Flood
• March 05, 2012 The Evidence of Al-Qa'ida's Role in the 2004 Madrid Attack
  By: Fernando Reinares
• February 05, 2012 Edges of Radicalization: Individuals, Networks and Ideas in Violent Extremism
  By: Scott Helfstein
• February 05, 2012 The Merger of Al-Shabab and Qa'idat al-Jihad
  By: Nelly Lahoud
• January 05, 2012 Policy Considerations in Combating Terrorism: Decision‐Making Under Conditions of Risk and Uncertainty
  By: Michele L. Malvesti
• January 05, 2012 The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship in the Year Ahead
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• November 05, 2011 Al-Qa'ida's Center of Gravity in a Post-Bin Ladin World
  By: Mitchell D. Silber
• October 05, 2011 Insights from Bin Ladin's Audiocassette Library in Kandahar
  By: Flagg Miller
• October 05, 2011 A False Foundation? AQAP, Tribes and Ungoverned Spaces in Yemen
  By: Gabriel Koehler-Derrick (editor)
• September 05, 2011 American Perceptions of Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Decade
  By: Paul R. Pillar
• August 05, 2011 AQAP's 'Great Expectations' for the Future
  By: Bruce Riedel
• July 05, 2011 The JRTN Movement and Iraq's Next Insurgency
  By: Michael Knights
• July 05, 2011 The Haqqani Nexus and the Evolution of al-Qa'ida
  By: Don Rassler, Vahid Brown
• June 05, 2011 The Death of Usama bin Ladin: Threat Implications for the U.S. Homeland
  By: Philip Mudd
• May 05, 2011 Success, Lethality, and Cell Structure Across the Dimensions of Al Qaeda
  By: Scott Helfstein, Dominick Wright
• May 05, 2011 Bin Ladin's Killing and its Effect on Al-Qa'ida: What Comes Next?
  By: Bruce Hoffman
• May 05, 2011 Shiism and Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan: Identity Politics, Iranian Influence, and Tit-for-Tat Violence
  By: Hassan Abbas
• March 05, 2011 The Unraveling of the Salih Regime in Yemen
  By: Christopher Boucek, Mara Revkin
• February 05, 2011 The Muslim Brotherhood's Role in the Egyptian Revolution
  By: Shadi Hamid, Steven Brooke
• January 05, 2011 Terrorist Awakening in Sweden?
  By: Dr. Magnus Ranstorp
• December 05, 2010 Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qa'ida and its Periphery
  By: Assaf Moghadam(ed.), Brian Fishman(ed.)
• November 05, 2010 AQAP's Soft Power Strategy in Yemen
  By: Barak Barfi
• October 05, 2010 Crime and Insurgency in the Tribal Areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan
  By: Gretchen Peters
• October 05, 2010 The Strengths and Weaknesses of Jihadist Ideology
  By: Nelly Lahoud
• September 05, 2010 Reevaluating Al-Qa'ida's Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities
  By: Peter Bergen
• August 05, 2010 Evaluating the Al-Qa'ida Threat to the U.S. Homeland
  By: Philip Mudd
• July 05, 2010 The Mysterious Relationship Between Al-Qa'ida and Iran
  By: Bruce Riedel
• June 05, 2010 AQAP's Growing Security Threat to Saudi Arabia
  By: Caryle Murphy
• May 05, 2010 Riyaz Bhatkal and the Origins of the Indian Mujahidin
  By: Praveen Swami
• April 05, 2010 Building a Strategic U.S.-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship
  By: Rolf Mowatt-Larssen
• March 05, 2010 Anwar al-'Awlaqi: Profile of a Jihadi Radicalizer
  By: Christopher Heffelfinger
• February 05, 2010 The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia
  By: Thomas Hegghammer
• February 05, 2010 A Beacon for Extremists: The Ansar al-Mujahideen Web Forum
  By: Evan Kohlmann
• January 05, 2010 The Facade of Allegiance: Bin Ladin's Dubious Pledge to Mullah Omar
  By: Vahid Brown
• January 05, 2010 AQAP in Yemen and the Christmas Day Terrorist Attack
  By: Gregory D Johnsen
• December 05, 2009 The Danger of Prison Radicalization in the West
  By: James Brandon
• November 05, 2009 Lashkar-i-Tayyiba: One Year After Mumbai
  By: Stephen Tankel
• October 05, 2009 A Profile of the TTP's New Leader: Hakimullah Mehsud
  By: Mukhtar A. Khan
• September 05, 2009 Are the Afghan Taliban Involved in International Terrorism?
  By: Anne Stenersen
• August 05, 2009 The Philippines' Continued Success Against Extremists
  By: Peter Chalk
• July 05, 2009 Radical Islamic Ideology in Southeast Asia
  By: Scott Helfstein(ed.)
• July 05, 2009 The Terrorist Threat to Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons
  By: Shaun Gregory
• June 05, 2009 Al-Qa'ida's Pakistan Strategy
  By: Don Rassler
• May 05, 2009 Comparing the U.S. and Soviet Experiences in Afghanistan
  By: Bruce Riedel
• April 05, 2009 Defining the Punjabi Taliban Network
  By: Hassan Abbas
• March 05, 2009 Dysfunction and Decline: Lessons Learned From Inside al-Qa'ida in Iraq
  By: Brian Fishman
• March 05, 2009 Somalia's New Government and the Challenge of Al-Shabab
  By: David H. Shinn
• February 05, 2009 The Debate over Taliban
  By: Kara L. Bue, John A. Gastright
• January 05, 2009 Al-Qa`ida's Five Aspects of Power
  By: Erich Marquardt
• December 05, 2008 Sunni and Shi'a Terrorism: Differences that Matter
  By: Thomas F. Lynch
• November 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 12 - Full Issue
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• October 05, 2008 Iranian Strategy in Iraq: Politics and "Other Means"
  By: Joseph Felter, Brian Fishman
• October 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 11 - Full Issue
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• September 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 10 - Full Issue
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• August 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 9 - Full Issue
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• July 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 8 - Full Issue
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• June 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 7 - Full Issue
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• May 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 6 - Full Issue
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• April 05, 2008 Volume 1, Issue 5 - Full Issue
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• March 05, 2008 Full Issue - Volume 1, Issue 4
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• February 05, 2008 Full Issue - Volume 1, Issue 3
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• January 05, 2008 Full Issue - Volume 1, Issue 2
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• December 05, 2007 Full Issue - Volume 1, Issue 1
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