An interview I conducted of my friend Paul, going into depth on what it was like as a B17 bombardier/navigator in the air war against Germany in World War Two.
An Interview: “Pure Luck: Survival in the Air war Against Nazi Germany”
33 good books I read in 2019
Are you looking for something to read? Here’s the “good” books I read this year. In 2019 I was most heavily interested in 4 main topics: urban America, WW2, Delaware and business/economy.
Maybe The Best Book I’ve Ever Read:
Book review: The way of strangers, Encounters with the Islamic State
With the growing appeal of ISISism in the Middle East, the importance of an effective US diplomatic focus on religious freedom, with new paradigms that take into account the gravity of the situation, is only growing. Last week I attended an important conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame that did a great job at helping take that discussion to a new level.
And on a related note, over the weekend, I finished this new book on ISIS:
In a nutshell, should you read this book and why?
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Can Egypt’s Muslim Establishment neutralize the anti-Establishment Jihadist narrative?
Below I have translated a February 13th article in Alaph newspaper titled “Daesh and the Muslim Brotherhood Call Upon Their Followers to Kill the Sheikh of Al-Azhar.”
It highlights the extent to which the political violence associated with Jihadist movements everywhere in the Muslim World is best understood using this paradigm:
Establishment versus Anti-Establishment
The basic divides as relates to Egypt in particular:
(Group A) Establishment Islam:
Why have Jihadists failed at implementing the Daesh “approach” in Sinai?
My translation of some solid analysis on a major CT issue by one of the Middle East’s top experts Egypt’s top experts:
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My new article for Divergent Options
I’ve got a piece out for a great new website on National Security.
I make the basic policy argument that a US prioritization of economic empowerment policies in the Middle East is ultimately the best way to combat the inter-related problems of the EU migration crisis and the rising appeal of Jihadism.
An excellent Egypt-related book
For Christmas I received this history of the British SAS during the Second World War. Yesterday I finished reading and highly recommend it. The book is based on first-rate primary source research and is very well-written. For anyone who’s ever lived in Cairo it will at times read like a walk down memory lane.
The Countering Jihadism Reading List – 19 recommended books
To be continuously updated
Below are 19 books that I consider essential reading* for understanding the nature of the Jihadism** problem and formulating the toughest and most strategic CT approach (as opposed to only tactical) during the new administration.
As a doctor will say, correctly diagnosing the cause of a problem is the key to figuring out how to stop it from happening.
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