THE FACE OF BATTLE
An in-depth report on the inconclusive battle to take one small village exposes the weakness of the strategy to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city.
Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, senior research rellow at Oxford University, and presidential scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He has studied and written about terrorism, violence, and religion, and has done fieldwork with terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists, as well as political leaders.
AFTER BRUSSELS
ISIS has a plan for taking down Europe. Do Europeans have one to stop them?
Mind Games
The West has failed utterly to understand the appeal of the ISIS narrative, much less to develop effective counternarratives.