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American Jihadi: Why Westerners Fight with the Islamic State

... those horrified by the images of beheadings and immolation, understanding this process (and more importantly the failure of the intelligence community and state department to make inroads against it) requires one to accept something most Americans cannot: ... ... century, making its reach and scope far beyond anything the West could ever think plausible. Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand the appeal of that small percentage willing to abandon the ...

18.04.2015

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American Failures with Grand Strategic Culture

... about how a specific conceptualization of ‘culture’ in intelligence studies, amongst scholars at first but subsequently ... ... micro-managed intelligence community and is almost always victim to the accusation by other nations of having no true definable culture at ... ... cases to illustrate all of this high-minded theory: the rise of radical Islam in the 1990s and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine ... ... analyst with no choice but to begin from a foundation that assumes Russian aggression, Russian aspiration for re-establishing empire ...

27.10.2014

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Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)