The Counterterrorism Conundrum: Understanding Terrorist Organizations, Ideological Warfare and Strategies for Counterintelligence-Based Counterterrorism

Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt

Novel information discovery for intelligence and counterterrorism

Intelligence analysts construct hypotheses from large volumes of data, but are often limited by social and organizational norms and their own preconceptions and biases. The use of exploratory data-mining technology can mitigate these limitations by requiring fewer assumptions. We present the design of the Athens system, which discovers novel information, relative to a specified set of existing ...

Game-Theoretic Risk Management for Counterterrorism

Federal agencies have finite resources. Even for critical purposes related to counterterrorism, resources must be allocated in the most effective ways possible. Statistical risk analysis can help by accounting for uncertainties in the costs and benefits of particular efforts, and game theory can help by accounting for the fact that terrorists adapt their attacks in response to homeland defense ...

Link Analysis Tools for Intelligence and Counterterrorism

Association rule mining is an important data analysis tool that can be applied with success to a variety of domains. However, most association rule mining algorithms seek to discover statistically significant patterns (i.e. those with considerable support). We argue that, in law-enforcement, intelligence and counterterrorism work, sometimes it is necessary to look for patterns which do not have...

Eriksonian Identity Theory in Counterterrorism

Certain terrorists come from unexpected backgrounds. They give up comfortable lives and opportunities in order to wage jihad. Their existence has puzzled various theorists since they came to light. This article will explain how a theory of psychosocial identity formation created by Erik Erikson and his student James Marcia may explain this phenomenon. It will also explain how Erikson's theoreti...