by editor | May 18, 2013 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Government, Publications
by Steven R. Corman Here is a quiz: In what South Asian war did a country invade to pursue its own interests, overthrow an existing government and establish a client regime, encounter effective resistance by local insurgents despite the superiority of its army, fight...
by lundry | Jul 27, 2012 | Analysis, Islam, Media, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry In a blog post last month, I noted how the Taliban have been inflating their counts of American casualties to a ridiculous degree. This month it approaches comedy. As reported by Indonesian extremist site ar Rahmah, in the period May 24 to June 23, the...
by editor | Jul 5, 2012 | Africa, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Image, Islam
By Bennett Furlow and Jeffry Halverson Over the past week a militant Islamist group operating in Mali called Ansar Dine has destroyed a number of Sufi mausoleums and the legendary gate of a 600-year-old mosque in the fabled city of Timbuktu. Many news reports have...
by admin | Jun 21, 2012 | COMOPS Journal
by Steven R. Corman I am currently in Izmir, Turkey attending the 5th NATO SHAPE Conference on Strategic Communication. Narrative has been an important theme at the conference. Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in...
by admin | Jun 20, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Islam, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Strategic Comm.
By Chris Lundry According to a CNN report Monday, the Taliban in Pakistan released a statement threatening to cut off all polio vaccinations for children in the North Waziristan region if the US continues drone strikes there. From the Taliban statement: Almost every...
by admin | Jun 7, 2012 | COMOPS Journal
By Chris Lundry We in the CSC have documented the predilection for the Taliban to exaggerate the number of casualties it inflicts on the ISAF in Afghanistan (in this blog post, and in Studies in Conflict in Terrorism). The latest Taliban figures for the Islamic month...