The Retrenchment Syndrome
A Response to “Come Home, America?”
Horn of Africa
China’s Military Has Global Ambitions
A new DoD report to Congress shows how the CCP sees the U.S. as its primary foe. Plus, why we should be concerned about China and Russia working together.
Op-eds
The Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooter Shows That Al-Qaeda Is Still a Significant Threat
We now know that Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani was working for AQAP.
Op-eds
Predators in the Global Jungle
Episode 54
Foreign Podicy
Brothers in Arms
The Consolidation of the Turkey-Qatar Axis
Monographs
Extremism and fragile states
Last year, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, to develop “a comprehensive plan to prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in th...
Op-eds
The China syndrome
Pollsters at the Pew Resear...
Op-eds
Africa’s Jihadist Frontiers
Episode 9
Foreign Podicy
Black lives in Africa
No nation in Africa is receiving more attention right now than Wakanda. And why not since, as Anthony Lane writes in The New Yorker, Wakanda is “a model of serenity,” that also is &ld...
Op-eds
Evolving Terror
The Development of Jihadist Operations Targeting Western Interests in Africa
Monographs
Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers
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Legislative Testimonies
Osama bin Laden’s ‘Bookshelf’ Reveals al Qaeda’s Long Game
When 113 new documents recovered in 2011 during the fatal raid on...
Op-eds
North Korean Ship Tests the Waters Near America’s Shores
It’s not often that North Korean-flagged freighters turn up near America’s shores, but when they do, they deserve attention. North Korea has a prolific record of arms smuggling, narco...
Op-eds
Al – Shabaab Strikes In Djibouti
Co-Authored by Henry Appel On Saturday evening, May 24, a Somali man and his female companion took their seats in La Chaumière, a restaurant in Djibouti’s capital p...
Op-eds
Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya
Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...
Legislative Testimonies
The Middle East’s Disappearing Borders
“The last year was a good one for al Qaeda, and for jihadism more broadly,” ...
Op-eds
Interpreting Al Qaeda
The last year was a good one for al Qaeda, and for jihadism more broadly. Al Qaeda af...
Op-eds
‘Responsibility to Protect’ is No Basis for Bombing Syria
In the Saturday edition of the National Post, eminent human rights advocate Irwin Cotler wrote that “if mass atrocities in Syria are not a case for R2P [the Responsibility to Protect doctri...
Op-eds
Why We Should Be Watching the Gulf of Guinea
As Washington has assessed the implications of Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, a crisis has loomed in another critical maritime e...
Op-eds
Should We Invade Mali to Stop al-Qaeda? Look at Somalia First
The West is moving toward a military intervention in Mali, somewhat slowly yet entirely deliberately, due to concerns about al-Qaeda’s control of territory there. An October UN Security Cou...