Note: This page is under development, a work in progress.
Scholarly analysis of the propaganda jihad
This detailed report, in the form of a graduate thesis by National Defense Intelligence College student Lt. Stuart A. Green (U.S. Navy), examines the background and dynamics of the propaganda jihad (or as he terms it, cognitive warfare). If the document doesn’t appear below, go here.
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News items regarding the propaganda jihad
These items are presented in reverse-chronological order. In the future they will be broken down by categories.
ISIS Is Winning the Social Media War, U.S. Concludes
By Mark Mazzetti and Michael B. Gordonjue, The New York Times, June 12, 2015
State Department Memo on the Islamic State Group
An internal memo paints a dismal picture of the Obama administration’s efforts to counter messaging by the Islamic State, June 12, 2015
Twitter Kills: How Online Networks Became a National-Security Threat
By James Jay Carafano, PhD, The National Interest, June 8, 2015
Al-Ḥayāt Media Center presents a new magazine from The Islamic State: “Istok #1″
May 26, 2015
Historian: ‘America No Longer Able to Win Wars’ (in part, because of the propaganda jihad)
By Robert Wilde, Breitbart News, May 23, 2015
The Islamic State Plans TV Channel, According to Reports
Variety, January 19, 2015
The Isis propaganda war: A hi-tech media jihad
By Steve Rose, The Guardian (UK), October 7, 2014
VIDEO: Flames Of War – Latest ISLAMIC STATE Propaganda Video: “The Fighting Has Just Begun”
CNN, September 19, 2014
ISIS Has a Really Slick and Sophisticated Media Department
By VICE News, July 12, 2014
Jihadist Internet propaganda on the rise
By DW (Germany), May 11, 2012
The YouTube Jihadists: A Social Network Analysis of Al-Muhajiroun’s Propaganda Campaign
The Terrorism Research Initiative, 2012
Generation Jihad: Young people ‘brainwashed with Al Qaeda propaganda on the Internet’
By Liz Thomas, Daily Mail (UK), February 15, 2010
An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers
by Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennnet, The New York Times, October 15, 2007
TIME Issues Retractions About Their Haditha Story
By Flopping Aces, June 9, 2006
Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations, by Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post, August 7, 2005
Black & Muslim slavery as a means of fueling jihad
Hamas’ Sinai Torture Camps
Times of Israel, October 27, 2014
Hamas and human organ trafficking? New information by one CNN journalist raises some highly uncomfortable questions for those who want to ‘deal with Hamas’
by Media Hawk, The Commentator, March 28, 2013
Web resources
Counter-jihad research and activism
Muslim anti-Islamist and counter-terror groups
Military blogs
Counter-Islamist media watchdogs
Pro-Israel groups