Yemen is Even More Dangerous Than We Think
By Barbara F. Walter and Kenneth M. Pollack People think Yemen is dangerous to United States because of…
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How Not To Respond to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks
By Barbara F. Walter Let’s be clear. The main goal of the three gunmen who attacked Charlie Hebdo yesterday was…
Senate Report on Torture Seems Unlikely to Lead to Greater Accountability
By Leslie Vinjamuri The executive summary of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on torture, released…
Competition Within Terrorist “Industry”: Notes From the Field in Syria and Yemen
By Vera Mironova For the last 20 years Al-Qaeda has enjoyed the status of being one of the…
If Aleppo Falls, What Next For The Free Syrian Army and Their Supporters?
Guest post by Vera Mironova, Loubna Mrie, and Sam Whitt A number of recent reports indicate that the…
The Banality of Violent Organizations
By Joe Young Before the now famous raid on the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, members of…