The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has released the July issue [PDF] of its CTC Sentinel journal, which is quickly establishing itself as one of the finest non-subscription publications addressing contemporary terrorism and insurgency around.
The July issue leads with an article by Michael Jacobson entitled Why Terrorists Quit: Gaining From Al-Qa`ida’s Losses, which argues that there are valuable lessons to be learned from an understanding of the processes by which individual terrorists have in the past become de-radicalised, voluntarily de-selecting themselves from participation in contemporary jihadist militancy. Jacobson’s thoughts on this subject were examined in a March posting on this blog.
Also of note is Kirsten E. Schulze’s piece entitled Indonesia’s Approach to Jihadist Deradicalization, which provides an Indonesian perspective on the practice of ‘COIN Inside the Wire’ – the process of integrating rehabilitation of captured militants into broader COIN campaigns – a strategy whose implementation by the Saudis, and by the US in Iraq, was examined in this post earlier this month.
The full line up is as follows:
Why Terrorists Quit: Gaining From Al-Qa`ida’s Losses
By Michael JacobsonAn Ideological and Operational Threat: Abu `Amr/Shaykh `Isa
By Erich Marquardt & Abdul Hameed BakierIndonesia’s Approach to Jihadist Deradicalization
By Kirsten E. SchulzeThe High Stakes Battle for the Future of Musa Qala
By David C. IsbyAl-Qa`ida Seeking to Recruit African-American Muslims
By Cadets Benjamin Haas & Daniel McGroryPropaganda and Peace Deals: The Taliban’s Information War in Pakistan
By Arthur KellerUncovering Extremist Violence in Morocco
By Alison PargeterAfter Action Report: Nuanced Diplomacy in Zerok, Afghanistan
By Captain John G. Gibson, U.S. Army
