Quotable: Scott Shane on “Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam”
“Saudi Arabia’s export of the rigid, bigoted, patriarchal, fundamentalist strain of Islam known as Wahhabism has fueled global extremism and contributed to terrorism. As the Islamic State projects its...
View ArticleQuotable: Jamil Anderlini on rising anti-Americanism in China
“. . . in authoritarian countries where alternative narratives are forbidden, official attempts to demonise foreigners and ‘others’ can be especially dangerous. In the past week, the Chinese government...
View ArticleQuotable: Lamb and Franco on leaks as the “IED’s of inside the Beltway warfare”
“Some journalists and academics justify leaks as a contribution to transparency, but this argument is suspect. The accuracy of the leaked information has to be questioned, but it also is clear that...
View ArticleQuotable: Lamb and Franco on strategic communications in the Long War
“U.S. foreign policy elites tend to believe public opinion at best complicates a steady hand on the strategy tiller. In turn, the public distrusts any U.S. Government management of information for fear...
View ArticleQuotable: Fouad Ajami on the roots of “burnt flags and overrun embassies”
“The assumption is that Westerners bear Arabs malice, that Western judgments are always slanted and cruel. The ambivalence toward modernity that torments Muslims is unlikely to abate.” Headline:...
View ArticleQuotable: “The Future of the Army” Report
In September, 2016, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security of the Atlantic Council published a report The Future of the Army: Today, Tomorrow, and the Day after Tomorrow by retired Army...
View ArticleQuotable: Joseph Polanin on four steps to defeat violent radical Islamism
“The United States has struggled to defeat violent radical Islamism because it presumed that cumulative tactical military successes against terrorist groups comprised a strategy, failed to acknowledge...
View ArticleQuotable: Mieczyslaw Boduszynski on the need for more than messaging in Iraq
“Overcoming the decades of mistrust will entail a longer, determined campaign that draws on the full range of public diplomacy tools. Consistent engagement, and building people-to-people ties through...
View ArticleQuotable: West Point's CTC on the Islamic State’s media efforts
“. . . despite releasing more than 700 products in a single month at its peak in August 2015, the overall number of official Islamic State visual media releases has declined since late 2015 to the...
View ArticleQuotable: John Kerry on social media, ISIS, and Silicon Valley
“John Kerry’s looking for help—for technological innovations that could help win the online war with extremist groups like ISIS, find a path between privacy for US citizens (and dissidents abroad) and...
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