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September 7, 2017 |

Evaluating Sanctions Enforcement and Policy Options on North Korea

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July 19, 2017 |

Restricting North Korea’s Access to Finance

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July 18, 2017 |

Managing Terrorism Financing Risk in Remittances and Money Transfers

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May 5, 2017 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Should Trump Meet With Kim Jong Un?

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong Un under the right conditions. Trump is not the first president to consider meeting a North Korean le...

October 2, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Saving Christians From ISIS Persecution

In 1975, as desperate Vietnamese sought to escape Communist rule, the U.S. embarked on what remains one of the greatest humanitarian rescue missions in history. Over the span of several weeks, Op...

July 15, 2014 | |

Cool Istanbul

Demet Muftuoglu-Eseli is standing perilously close to the fire. The Turkish fashion mogul turned gallerist is hosting a gala dinner for “Istancool,” the annual arts and cultur...

October 15, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Anas Al-Liby’s Pakistan Qaeda Connection

The recent counterterrorism raids in Libya and Somalia highlight a fundamental flaw in the U.S. Government’s analysis of al Qaeda. A common misconception is that there is a distinct, fixed...

August 13, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Gitmo’s Czar Speaks Out

The closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been on Barack Obama’s mind for a long time. After promising time and again during the 2008 campaign...

October 6, 2011 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Anwar Al-Awlaki’s American Journey

He was born in a land of freedom, tolerance and opportunity. He wanted none of it.

September 30, 2011 | Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard

Awlaki’s Death a Delayed Counterterrorism Success

Anwar al Awlaki has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Yemen, bringing an end to the life of one of al Qaeda’s most effective recruiters. Awlaki had an especially s...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

The Times Swings Its Hatchet at Bush…and Hits Mukasey

Even by low Gray Lady standards, a journalistic abomination.

June 10, 2011 | Human Events |

Lawfare’s Soft Targets

The failure of the Bush administration to reverse its predecessors’ drastic shrinkage of our armed services is notorious.  Yet, because our fighters are the greatest in human history, the most pern...

March 17, 2011 |

On the NRO Libya Editorial, I Respectfully Dissent

I respectfully dissent from Wedesday’s NRO editorial, which urges that the United States go to war with Libya. The editorial doesn’t put it that way. Indeed, it doesn&r...

January 26, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Pajamas Media

The New York Times Goes to (Spy) War

  The New York Times has been amusing itself — for the second time in as many years — at the expense of Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, a retired CIA Operations Off...

February 18, 2010 |

Leadership vs. Leaderless Resistance: The Militant White Separatist Movement’s Operating Model

Co-authored by Madeleine Gruen White separatism today bears little resemblance to the movement a decade ago. At that time, the movement could have been described as inhabiting the furthe...

November 4, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c...

November 4, 2009 | CTR Vantage

The Indictment of Abdow Munye Abdow and the Application of “False Statements” Charges

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. Madeleine Gruen   On Oct. 13, 2009, a Minnesota grand jury indicted 26-year-old Abdow Munye Abdow on two counts of ma...

March 10, 2008 |

Lawfare’s Soft Targets


The failure of the Bush administration to reverse its predecessors’ drastic shrinkage of our armed services is notorious.  Yet, because our fighters are the greatest in human history, the most pernicious fall-out of our parsimony remains unnoticed.  The peerless but thinly stretched U.S. military, it turns out, has an Achilles’ heel:  it cannot combat lawfare waged against the private partners on whom it is ever more dependent. 

June 24, 2007 |

The Profession v. Gitmo

Continuing to beat the drum for a return to September 10th America, the Washington Post reported on Saturday that a military lawyer, fleetingly involved almost three years ago in assessing whethe...

March 29, 2007 |

Nuclear Motives

There’s no denying it. Iran’s capture of 15 British hostages was a stroke of cunning — and a brilliant one at that. The mullahs were in a pickle. They had decided to do two thin...