Center for Strategic Communication

GCC starting to create regional security

This week saw the Gulf Cooperation Council (the GCC) take major security and political steps together.  Strategically they came together in Qatar to present Arab unity against the threats and challenges they face together.   First they have decided to put a “family...

Confronting ISIL – what next?

During the NATO Summit in the United Kingdom last week, world leaders acknowledged the real and legitimate threat that ISIL (aka ISIS and IS) poses to the people of the Middle East and the whole world. ISIL’s barbaric and murderous rule and its pervasion of Islam, in...

Time for an Arab NATO ?

Last week, General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, stated that ISIL/ISIS, “will only be defeated when we have a coalition in the region that takes on the task of defeating ISIS over time.” This is why actions taken against terrorists and insurgents...

Defeating the ISIL threat – for good

In last few days I have appeared on a number of Arab TV channels discussing the growing threat of ISIL and what will be required to fully defeat the organization. ISIL is barbaric and violent. The brutal murder of journalist James Foley last week showed the true...