Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Books, Qaeda, Terrorism on Dec 5th, 2008 No Comments »
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and how they wrote them, and what impact they hope and expect to achieve. Assaf Moghadam is a research fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and a member of MESH. His new book is The [...]
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Counterinsurgency, Iraq, Qaeda on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
From Assaf Moghadam
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point just released a study on the foreign fighters streaming into Iraq. The new study, Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road in and Out of Iraq, edited by my colleague Brian Fishman, expands on an analysis of Al Qaeda in Iraq’s personnel records conducted by the [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Assaf Moghadam, Books, Daniel Byman, J. Scott Carpenter, Josef Joffe, Mark T. Clark, Martin Kramer, Michael Horowitz, Michael Reynolds, Michael Young, Philip Carl Salzman, Robert Satloff, Steven A. Cook, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Walter Laqueur, Walter Reich on Jul 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
With August fast approaching, MESH has asked its members to recommend a book for summer reading. (For more information on a book, or to place an order with Amazon through the MESH bookstore, click on the book title or cover.)
Posted in Assaf Moghadam, Qaeda, Terrorism on Apr 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
A new article by Thomas Hegghammer in the Times Literary Supplement, entitled “Jihadi studies: the obstacles to understanding radical Islam and the opportunities to know it better,” lives up to its title—not so much by delineating what these obstacles are, but rather by being representative of them. Regrettably, the author evokes the same [...]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Assaf Moghadam, Michael Horowitz, Qaeda, Terminology, Terrorism on Feb 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Assaf Moghadam
In recent years, a growing number of analysts and policymakers, have referred to the doctrines guiding Al Qaeda and its associates as an ideology, and appear to have influenced the Bush administration into adopting the term as well. President Bush, for example, has characterized the 9/11 suicide hijackers as men who “kill in [...]
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