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The Christmas Day airliner attack and the intelligence process
As is well known, a Nigerian national named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to destroy a passenger aircraft traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit...
Learning from terrorist tradecraft
A week after he was arrested in Chicago on Oct. 3, David Coleman Headley was charged in a federal criminal complaint with...
The Jihadist’s strategic dilemma
With U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement of his strategy in Afghanistan, the U.S.-jihadist war has entered a new phase.
With its allies, the...
Analysis: Obama’s Afghan strategy
US President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening.
The strategy had three...
The US challenge in Afghanistan
The decision over whether to send more US troops into Afghanistan may wait until the contested Afghan election is resolved, US officials say.
The announcement...
Stratfor: Next steps in the Indo-Pakistani crisis
In an interview published this Sunday in The New York Times, we laid out a potential scenario for the current Indo-Pakistani crisis. We...