Afghan War Blog

Video - ISIS and Money.  Watch a four-minute long video explaining how the Islamic State funds itself and how government and private-secto...

Bureau of Counterterrorism Renamed.  The new name is the "Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism". This nam...

Khost Protection Force & the CIA - Part 1. A regional counterterrorism pursuit team set up in Khost province by the CIA has been prob...

Red Mercury - A Scam? "For decades, aspiring bomb makers - including ISIS - have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal su...

CT - Rhetoric vs. Reality. Anthony H. Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), provides us his thoughts...

Counterterrorism - Comparing Bush and Obama. The policies of President Bush and President Obama were more aligned than some think in the c...

CIA Psychologists Being Sued. A lawsuit was filed this past week in federal court in Spokane, Washington against a pair of psychologists ...

OPM Breach, the CIA, and China.  According to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper the ". . . CIA  pulled a number of offi...

Intel Analyst Revolt at CENTCOM? One news article is reporting a 'revolt' by intelligence professionals working at Central Command...

Paper on Network Analysis Techniques in Future Environments. The U.S. Army's recently published National Military Strategy (NMS) - Ju...

Asymmetric Conflict and the Human Domain. The nature of warfare has changed in the world. For the United States its opponents are less l...

Article - "The Limits of Counterterrorism". The Obama administration has a robust (some observers believe) counterterrorism strat...