by editor | Nov 5, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Identification, Language, Movements
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has released a new white paper by Bennett Furlow entitled Extremism and Victimhood in the U.S. Context. The Executive Summary appears below, and the full white paper can be downloaded here. Political extremism is not a new phenomenon. From...
by lundry | Jul 18, 2012 | Analysis, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication, Counterterrorism, Islam
by Chris Lundry The International Crisis Group has released another outstanding report on Indonesian extremism (available here) that reflects their in-depth approach, extensive connections, and long reaching background into the topic. This report focuses on extremist...
by editor | Jul 9, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has released a new white paper, entitled How Islamist Extremists Quote the Qur’an. The study is based on of over 1500 verse citations from over 2000 items of extremist propaganda collected as part of our extremist narrative project....
by admin | May 8, 2012 | COMOPS Journal
CSC Director Steve Corman addressed the 5th NATO SHAPE Strategic Communication conference on June 21st in Izmir, Turhey. The conference gathered over 140 practitioners from NATO member countries. The conference featured a keynote address by Gen. John Allen, commander...
by lundry | Jan 18, 2012 | Afghanistan, Image, Indonesia, Iraq, Media, Military, Southeast Asia
by Chris Lundry (with R. Bennett Furlow) It did not take long for the images of the US Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters to go viral. A moment of lapsed judgment will circulate as long as anyone is interested in seeing it, certainly long after short...
by editor | Nov 9, 2011 | Publications
by Steven R. Corman NSI has just released a new edited volume (PDF here) that should be of interest to COMOPS Journal readers. Entitled Countering Violent Extremism: Scientific Methods and Strategies, it contains the latest thinking on the subject, including a...