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Small Wars, Big Data
How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectively. The way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between large armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies that deploy elusive methods, from improvised explosives to terrorist attacks. Small Wars, Big Data presents a transformative understanding of these contemporary confrontations and how they should be fought. The authors show that a revolution in the study of conflict--enabled by vast data, rich qualitative evidence, and modern methods--yields new insights into terrorism, civil...
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout
This report is the second by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to assess the demographics, procedures, finances, and leadership of al-Qa'ida's foreign fighters, especially those currently fighting in Iraq. This report analyzes al-Qa'ida in Iraq's (AQI) operations from spring 2006 to summer 2007 and is being issued with a trove of AQI documents captured by coalition forces near Sinjar, Iraq. The documents include almost 600 AQI personnel records for foreign fighters crossing into Iraq, AQI contracts for suicide bombers, AQI contracts for fighters leaving Iraq, narratives written by al-Qa'ida's Syrian smugglers, and AQI financial records. The CTC also acquired demographic information on all Third Country Nationals (TCNs) in detention at Camp Bucca, Iraq. Most of this data has not previously been released to the public.
Al Qaida Foreign Fighters in Iraq
Media reports indicate that some of the rebels fighting against Muammar Qaddafi in the 2011 uprising may be al-Qaeda terrorists. This report from the U.S. Military Academy Combating Terrorism Center discloses records, called the Sinjar Records recovered in Iraq which reveal the country of origin of foreign fighters in the Iraq war. The report states: "Almost 19 percent of the fighters in the Sinjar Records came from Libya alone. Furthermore, Libya contributed far more fighters per capita than any other nationality in the Sinjar Records, including Saudi Arabia. The previous reports may have collectively understated the Libyan contribution to the fight in Iraq, but the relative synchronization...
Assessing Relevant Lessons from the Soviet Experience in Afghanistan
Former highly classified documents and records chronicling the internal communications and discourse of the Soviet Politburo reveal important insights into how senior leaders in the Soviet Union assessed the evolving situation in Afghanistan from events leading up to the 1979 invasion and its protracted occupation, through the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989, and for the nearly three additional years of support to the Soviet installed Afghan government left behind. We use structured, focused comparison methodology to systematically extract relevant findings and lessons from this archive that can inform policy makers dealing with comparable issues and challenges. This methodology draws on...
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout
A report by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC), which launched the Harmony Project in order to release and analyze documents from DoD¿fs classified Harmony Database. The Harmony Project unearths and releases documents that reveal the inner¿]functioning of al¿]Qa¿fida, its associated movements, and other security threats. This report introduces new documents and new analysis to provide a better picture of al¿]Qa¿fida in Iraq¿fs operations and its prospects for the future. Illus.
Fault Lines in Global Jihad
This book deals with the causes, nature, and impact of the divisions within the jihadi movement, and the splits between jihadis and other Islamic groups. Fault Lines in Global Jihad offers a systematic and comprehensive examination of the broad range of divisions that contribute to the weakening of the jihadi movement. It separates these divisions into two broad categories, namely fissures dividing jihadis themselves, and divisions separating jihadis from other Muslim and Islamist groups. The first part of the book covers intra-jihadi divisions, highlighting tensions and divisions over strategic, tactical, and organizational issues. The second part of the book addresses several important cas...
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel
Offers unique insights into the inner workings of jihadist organisations over the past three decades in North Africa and the Sahel.
