Category: Propaganda
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Reclassifying the Battlefield: Inside ISKP’s Delegitimization Playbook
ISKP’s Pashto pamphlet weaponizes doctrine to recode Taliban militancy as jāhiliyyah and claim a monopoly on legitimate jihad through bayʿah to a caliph. This analysis unpacks that authority-first logic, its recruitment function, and the border-collapsing frame that treats Afghanistan and Pakistan as one “apostate system.”
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Strategic Narratives and the Battlefield of Perception: Hamas’s Bilingual Propaganda
Hamas has perfected a form of combat that unfolds not on the battlefield but across screens and social‐media feeds. Since its October 7 operation, the movement has run two distinct propaganda campaigns—one in English for Western audiences and one in Arabic for regional supporters—that function as dual prongs of its strategic arsenal. By tailoring its…
