U.S. Homeland Security and Terrorist Haven Blind Spots
The U.S. Establishment’s preferred perspective on identifying potential terrorist activity is to go where they have found it before. From a practical sense, this makes…
Horror of ISIS and its Metamorphosis into a Global Terrorist Movement
Among the most significant challenges in countering terrorism today has been the dynamic nature and fluidity of ISIS, which has evolved from a more traditional…
Responsibility to Defy Extremism and Terrorism
If you have ever watched the failure of law and order in public, after a while, you will see a frequent pattern. When enough lawbreakers…
Understanding Extremism from a Human Rights Perspective
To “counter violent extremism,” we don’t have to wait for a mass-casualty terrorist attack to leave our fellow human beings dead in the street. We…
Essential Nature of National Security to Support Global Security
In the United States of America, or in any other nation, a representative government which does not view the public safety of the people it…
Terrorism and tactics of “Acceptable Losses”
In the September 2016, 100th issue of the West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel, Brian Michael Jenkins seeks to describe the American government’s success…
Counterterror Establishment and the Resistance to Change
The U.S. struggle with too many counterterrorism experts is this: we value their detailed knowledge on individuals, groups, history, and tactics — but while such…
Terrorist Attack on Trust and Challenges for Law Enforcement on Terrorism
Is trust in our law enforcement ever an “acceptable loss” when it comes to terrorist threats against our public? Washington DC, formally the District of Columbia,…
Remembering Beslan – Terrorist Crimes Against Our Children
On September 1, 2004, 770 children were kidnapped by terrorists in Russia in a small town of Beslan. It was a return to school for…
GWU Counterterror Program Hires Convicted Terrorist Supporter who served Partial Prison Sentence
The George Washington University (GWU)’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) has hired a convicted terrorist supporter, whose terrorist website promoted Al Qaeda, Taliban,…