Understanding Gender and Violent Extremism
Analysis conducted for an assistant secretary of defense found that stereotypes fail to capture the wide variety of roles performed by women in the Islamic State, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab and other groups.
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Taliban moving captured US military vehicles and Soviet tanks to Iranian borderTask & Purpose | 01 Jun 2023
Jonathan Schroden says, “The Iranians have military jets, drones, and anti-armor weapons and the Taliban have little to nothing to stop those capabilities. Which means the surest way for the Taliban to lose what few tanks they have is to employ them operationally against the Iranians.”
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Army Mulls 10-20% Cut to Special Operations ForcesDefense One | 22 May 2023
Jonathan Schroden says, “We ran a bunch of different calculations, scenarios, etc. One of the common themes in terms of force structure requirements that emerged from those is in almost every scenario we looked at, there was a higher demand for PSYOP forces, for civil affairs forces, for undersea warfare and maritime capabilities, than what the force has today.”
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