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  • America’s Top Five Mistakes in Iraq

    Posted by 20committee on May 22, 2015May 22, 2015

    The fall of Ramadi to the fanatical forces of the Islamic State, a big strategic win for the insurgents, has concentrated minds about just how badly things have gone in Iraq for the last dozen years, since American forces annihilated...

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  • Putin’s Macedonian Gambit

    Posted by 20committee on May 21, 2015May 21, 2015

    Macedonia, a small, impoverished Balkan state, has appeared in the newspapers lately, which it seldom does outside of Southeastern Europe. Macedonia was the only Yugoslav republic to escape the collapse of Tito’s federation in the early 1990’s without bloodshed, but...

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  • Kremlin Disinformation and Propaganda [VIDEO]

    Posted by 20committee on May 13, 2015May 13, 2015

    I recently was honored to participate at the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) conference in Washington, DC, where I took part in a discussion of Kremlin disinformation and propaganda. My comments, on Chekist Active Measures and their relevance today,...

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  • Moving Forward …

    Posted by 20committee on May 12, 2015

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  • On Comments

    Posted by 20committee on January 18, 2015February 19, 2015

    I’ve always allowed comments on this blog. Managing comments has been a task that’s been mostly enjoyable, the occasional troll notwithstanding. However, there’s been a gradual rise in commenters who feel entitled to an extended response to their statements, and...

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  • New Intelligence on Italian Jihadists

    Posted by 20committee on August 25, 2014August 25, 2014

    Compared to France, Germany, or Britain, Italy’s problem with domestic jihadism is relatively modest, yet it is growing fast, thanks to the wars in Syria and Iraq. A new report in Corriere della Sera, Italy’s paper of record, based on...

    Counterintelligence, Radicalism, Terrorism, Uncategorized
  • War and the (Islamic) State

    Posted by 20committee on August 24, 2014August 24, 2014

    The barbaric murder this week of the American journalist James Foley by a British jihadist has served as a tragic reminder of the gravity of the global threat posed by the Salafi jihad movement. For the first time in years,...

    Counterintelligence, Radicalism, Strategy, Terrorism, Uncategorized, USG
  • Bosnia and the Global Jihad Revisited

    Posted by 20committee on August 23, 2014August 23, 2014

    Back in 2007, my book Unholy Terror ruffled quite a few feathers by pointing out the unpleasant truth that, in the 1990s, Bosnia-Hercegovina became a jihadist playground and a major venue for Al-Qa’ida, thanks to malign Saudi and Iranian influences....

    Counterintelligence, Strategy, Terrorism, Uncategorized, USG
  • Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Another View

    Posted by 20committee on August 8, 2014August 8, 2014

    My recent post analyzing what might happen if Putin invades eastern Ukraine has generated much discussion and some excellent comments. I’m posting a recent one by Jim A. (who, full disclosure, I know “in real life” and served in the...

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  • Latest Ukrainian Intelligence News

    Posted by 20committee on August 7, 2014August 7, 2014

    As war rages in eastern Ukraine, with a possible Russian invasion looming, Kyiv has gone public today with shocking stories about the extent of Russian espionage and lethal covert action in their country. As reported by 5 Kanal TV, Valentyn Nalyvaychenko,...

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