Category Archives: Terrorism

US MOAB strike in Afghanistan was very Putin-esque

Posted on June 5, 2017

by Paul Iddon. The United States’ 21,600 pound (9,800 kg) GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) saw its combat debut in Afghanistan in mid-April against the terror organization “Islamic State” (ISIS) in a massive retaliatory strike … Continue reading →

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The ISIS drone threat

Posted on May 10, 2017

by Paul Iddon. In a 1993 televised panel discussion about the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and potential ballistic missile threats from countries like North Korea and Iran, scholar Russell Seitz briefly touched upon the simple forms in which asymmetrical threats … Continue reading →

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Taliban’s Propaganda War

Posted on May 8, 2017

by Austin Michael Bodetti. He is a student in the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College. He focuses on the relationship between Islam and conflict in Syria and Sudan. The news media heralds the terror organisation “Islamic State” (ISIS) … Continue reading →

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The Taliban is learning from ISIS and al-Qaeda

Posted on November 27, 2016

by Austin Michael Bodetti. He is a student in the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College. He focuses on the relationship between Islam and conflict in Syria and Sudan. While the Taliban is seeing its greatest successes in over … Continue reading →

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Islamic States’ limited anti-air and anti-tank capabilities won’t turn the tide of battle

Posted on November 25, 2016

Just two and a half week into the ongoing operation to recapture Islamic States’ (ISIS) primary, and last, Iraqi urban stronghold Mosul, the militants successfully took an American-made Iraqi Army M1A1 Abrams tank out of action with an anti-tank missile … Continue reading →

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Are mock ISIS weapons deceiving the coalition?

Posted on November 19, 2016

The US Department of Defense frequently releases press statements detailing the targets US-led coalition airstrikes have bombed in Iraq and Syria as part of their ongoing war against Islamic State (ISIS) militants. These statements invariably describe how many ISIS vehicles, … Continue reading →

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Small, Cheap UAVs are Making the Pentagon Nervous, so DARPA is Stepping in to Help

Posted on November 15, 2016

by Darien Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh is a contributor for War is Boring and Reverb Press. He serves on the Board of Directors for Auntie Bellum. The Video below, supposedly recorded near Aleppo in August 2016 shows what appears to be drones … Continue reading →

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Rio 2016: Brazilian Security in the Spotlight

Posted on November 13, 2016

by Michael Martelle. Michael is a masters student studying Security Policy at the George Washington University’s Elliott School for International Affairs. A week after the truck attack in Nice, France, and two weeks before opening ceremonies in Rio De Janeiro, … Continue reading →

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What ISIS wants: The strategy behind the attacks in Europe and the US

Posted on September 19, 2016

by Dr. Adrian Hänni and Lukas Hegi (originally published in German). On the occasion of the 2016 Nice attack, the editor in chief of a Swiss newspaper argued about the rational behind the attacks by the terrorist militia “Islamic State … Continue reading →

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The Afghan Local Police: An Expensive Project with Doubtful Results

Posted on September 18, 2016

by Austin Michael Bodetti. He is a student in the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College. He focuses on the relationship between Islam and conflict in Syria and Sudan. As regimes, governments, and states in the Third World have … Continue reading →

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