Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University

WASHINGTON – A new White House strategy paper calls for stepping up efforts to counter terror groups’ propaganda – a role played by Voice of America until President Donald Trump kneecapped the government-run news broadcaster last year.

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Introduction

For years, before the fall of the Assad regime and the emergence of Syria’s new government under Ahmed Al-Sharaa, trucks steadily rolled into northern Syria from Turkey into territory controlled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The Sunni Islamist group, formed from the ex-al-Qaeda branch Al-Nusra Front, was widely designated as a terror organizat...

Editor’s Note:

This essay is from the Security & Defence PLuS Emerging Voices Series, which highlights the next generation of scholars and practitioners shaping thinking on strategy, security, and defense. The series brings together perspectives ...

Abstract 

In persistent competition below the threshold of armed conflict, analysts gain advantage when they identify cognitive shifts before behavior confirms them. The Integrated Cognitive Assessment Framework (ICAF), provides a structured approach that links influence activities to observable outcomes through a defined cognitive decision cyc...

Abstract

This article builds on previous Signature Reduction contributions that defined signature as the totality of observable behavior across physical and digital domains, established signature reduction as a behaviorally grounde...