The UK’s new counterterrorism strategy neglects overseas priorities when it comes to combating terrorist activity at the source. On June 4, the UK government published the latest version of its counterterrorism strategy (CONTEST.) The...
The possibility of airstrikes against Syria demonstrates yet again how policy undermines military strategy. On April 12, Britain’s emergency “war cabinet” sat to deliberate airstrikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria as a...
Nobody really knows for sure whether today’s terrorists are really yesterday’s criminals, thugs and gangsters. It seems that studying terrorism and terrorists through the prism of past criminal activities has become particularly fashionable....
Germany funds foundations for its political parties. If the far right gets one, we’re one step closer to globalizing the alt-right. Germany got its very own electoral shock on September 24, when the far right won 13% of the vote in country’s...
Our present explanations of the radicalized, self-sacrificial defiance of many young Muslims are at best partial and, at worst, misleading. Born in Derby, her mother a local woman, her father a painter and decorator from Lahore, Pakistan, she has...
