...Heeding the advice of those who waged such ideological struggles before us, the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point has dedicated much of its resources this year to understanding the Jihadi ideology through the words of its adherents. In its
Harmony and Disharmony report, the CTC exposed the organizational weaknesses of al-Qa`ida using its own internal documents. CTC’s
Jihadi Imagery Report catalogued frequently-used images in Jihadi propaganda. The translation of Abu Bakr Naji’s
Management of Savagery released by the CTC focused new attention on the Jihadi Movement’s grand strategy in the Middle East. And
Stealing al-Qa`ida’s Playbook exposed the ideology’s soft underbelly by using the writings of Jihadi scholars and ideologues.
The Militant Ideology Atlas is the CTC’s most recent and comprehensive attempt to better understand the ideology driving the Jihadi Movement. The empirically supported findings from this effort are generated by a systematic research methodology and critical analyses of hundreds of al-Qa`ida’s most widely-read and influential texts. The wealth of information contained in the Atlas’ Research Compendium provides a new generation of scholars and analysts with the data and evidence they need to understand our adversaries and to devise strategies for combating them...
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