On Monday, my Brookings colleague Bruce Riedel held an excellent discussion with Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and author of the new book Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda. Mudd has also served … Read more »
Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and a former CIA official, hosted Philip Mudd, a former CIA and FBI official, for a public talk this Monday entitled “Organizing and Managing Intelligence Analysis … Read more »
Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet. (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.) Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah bin Mohammed, catalogs twenty-two handy methods by … Read more »
I want to highlight these upcoming events at Brookings of potential interest to our readers in the D.C. area:
Is there a Widening Sunni-Shia Schism?
February 22, 2013, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST, Saul/Zilkha Rooms
An upswing in sectarian
The other day, I announced a little experiment that grew out of a conversation with Aaron Zelin, an expert on jihadist groups at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Zelin pointed out that while the analytical community of which
This morning, my Brookings colleagues Michael O’Hanlon and Bruce Riedel held an excellent event with General Stanley McChrystal on the evolution of JSOC and his new book, My Share of the Task. I can’t embed the video because of … Read more »
This should pique the interest of our local readers:
Killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and His Legacy: A Discussion with General Stanley A. McChrystal
Monday, January 28, 2012, 10:00 — 11:30 am
The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW,
The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings held a fantastic event today entitled “Global Counterterrorism: A Progress Report” featuring Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department. Ambassador Benjamin discussed the state of … Read more »
Three events at Brookings are coming up in the near future that will be of interest to readers:
1. The Internationalization of Law
Ninth Annual Raymond Aron Lecture Featuring Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty and Justice Stephen Breyer
Tuesday, December 18, 2012, … Read more »
This is the latest piece in the interview series I have done over the last few months with terrorism and regional experts about non-legal issues of pertinence to Lawfare readers. For this episode, I interviewed American University professor and nonresident … Read more »
Two days ago, I posted video and audio of a Brookings Campaign 2012 event on policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan in the next administration. The event featured a paper entitled, “Maximizing Chances for Success in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” … Read more »
In one of my numerous other lives, I am running the Campaign 2012 project for the Brookings Institution. The Campaign 2012 project is a cross-Brookings effort to identify critical issues facing the next administration and come up with constructive policy … Read more »
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In one of the strangest stories I’ve come across in a long time—and there have been many—news reports say an FBI agent shot and killed an Orlando man with ties to deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Ibragim Todashev was not suspected of playing a role in the bombings, but, during questioning, confessed nevertheless to playing a role in a triple homicide in the Boston area. After his confession, Todashev allegedly… Read more »
