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November 16, 2021 | Graham Kennis, Laura Bate, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Agile Multilateralism Is Needed to Address Cybercrime Safe Havens

With the Treasury Department’s announcement of sanctions against the cryptocurrency exchange SUEX and the 30-nation summit led by the White House, the past few weeks have served as a reminder that in...

October 5, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Potential of a Chinese Terror Threat

Eighteen billion dollars in new contracts were signed during the fifth China-Eurasia Exp...

January 13, 2016 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Islamic State vs. Al-Qaeda: The War Within the Jihadist Movement

Co-authored with Nathaniel Barr and Bridget Moreng The post-Arab Spring period has seen extraordinary growth in the global jihadist movement. In addition to the ...

October 19, 2015 | Michael G. Waltz

FDD Welcomes Green Beret Michael Waltz as Non-Resident Senior Fellow

WASHINGTON - Michael Waltz, a lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces (reserve component), has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident senior fellow. Waltz, who...

June 9, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The LA Times Whitewashes the Taliban Five

There is a concerted push to sanitize the records of four of the five Taliban leaders transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar. But before delving into some of the specifics, let us recount the basic...

May 12, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya

Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...

April 11, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Scare Tehran, Please

Is Barack Obama’s threat of preventive military action against the Iranian regime’s nuclear program credible? Would a one-year, six-month, or even three-month nuclear breakout capacit...

January 16, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Spinning Al-Qaeda

Since June 2012, Peter Bergen, the swashbuckling reporter who serves as CNN’s national-security analyst and a director of the liberal New America Foundation, has been among those in the for...

January 2, 2014 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Fewer Deaths From Drone Strikes in 2013 After Obama Policy Change

President Barack Obama’s mid-year decision to wind down drone strikes has accounted for a lower number of ...

December 16, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Is the Terrorist Threat Declining? The Use and Abuse of Statistics

Earlier this month, terrorism analyst Peter Bergen wrote at CNN that the declining number of...

August 1, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Al Qaeda Is Back!

By all accounts, the attack was planned with care and executed with precision. At two notorious Iraqi prisons, Abu Ghraib and Taji, al-Qaeda combatants last week used mo...

May 23, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi

‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-polic...

January 24, 2013 | Clifford D. May

A Religious Taboo

American officials can kill our enemies. They just can’t discuss our enemies’ beliefs.

November 8, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Lessons of the Battle of Benghazi

Our enemies will learn them. Will we?

October 18, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Is Al-Qaeda Defeated?

Its ideology is not — and ideology matters.

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

May 7, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

Assessing Interpretations of the New Bin Laden Documents

The documents recovered from Abbottabad that were released on Thursday represent the largest new trove of i...

April 25, 2011 |

A False Martyr

Late last year, Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr agreed to a plea deal that will require him to serve a maximum of eight years, with just one of those years in Cuba. Khadr is then set to be returne...

October 12, 2010 | International Oil Daily

US Report Calls for Sanctions Against Chinese Firms Active in Iran

A new report by a US think tank identifies 10 large Chinese energy companies that continue to do business with Iran in spite of international sanctions. It warns the Obama administration that fai...

September 11, 2009 |

KSM’s Sleeper Agents Posed A Serious Threat

You would think the identification and arrest of sleeper agents working for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and operating on U.S. soil in 2003, is a success story our intelligen...