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**Generation Jihad**

The war against Islamic Jihadism is defining generations. It was our father’s war, it’s our war, and will most likely be our children’s war. The FDD' s Long War Journal team has been researching and reporting for over two decades on the jihadists fueling this terror. “Generation Jihad” features LWJ Editor Bill Roggio as he diagnoses the black and white motivations behind the world’s most notorious terrorists, reports on their expanding malign activities, and offers prescriptions for confronting the multi-generational menace that is Islamic Jihadism.

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 101 — Israel: "This is not a conflict. This is a war." Oct 07, 2023

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Bill is joined by LWJ/FDD's Joe Truzman to talk about the war (yes, it's officially a war) happening now in Israel.

Ep. 100 — Squad Pops Off on Mali Sep 27, 2023

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Where in the world might the next state collapse into failure?

Hosts Bill and Caleb ultimately narrowed it down to two options: Somalia or Mali.

Shabaab in Somalia has aptly been dubbed "The Taliban of Africa," given how well-organized, well-armed and effective it is there as a jihadist group.

But Mali is actually the weaker state. To boot:

— The UN has undertaken an unprecedented withdrawal of its peacekeeping forces and will no longer have a presence in Mali by the end of this year;

— France, which was a major counterterrorism partner, has already completely withdrawn its troops from Mali;

— There is currently an Islamic Statelet in northern Mali, where the Islamic State controls the majority of an entire province;

— Al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory in both northern and central Mali, and it increasingly threatens Bamako as it slowly encroaches on the capital;

— And also in the ring: Russia's Wagner Group.

Despite all of these excellent targets, the country's ruling military junta in Bamako is threatening open conflict with rebels in the north — a situation that could easily erupt into war.

Bill and Caleb agree: It's Mali on the brink.

Ep. 99 — The Kabul Fiasco Aug 30, 2023

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Bill is joined by Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson to discuss their new book: Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco — from the Biden administration’s deeply flawed decision to withdraw from Afghanistan to its equally disastrous execution of the withdrawal, which was completed two years ago today.

Ep. 98 — Fatal Transaction Aug 16, 2023

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Hosts Bill and Caleb (yes, Bill still thanks his co-host for joining even though it's his job, so what) are joined by Caleb's colleagues from the Bridgeway Foundation: Tara Candland (Vice President of Research and Analysis at Bridgeway) and Ryan O'Farrell (Senior Analyst at Bridgeway and Long War Journal contributor).

They discuss Bridgeway's June 2023 report co-authored by Caleb, Ryan, and Tara and published with George Washington University's Program on Extremism: Fatal Transaction: The Funding Behind the Islamic State's Central Africa Province.

Ep. 97 — The coup in Niger Aug 04, 2023

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Bill and Caleb are joined by expert James Barnett to make sense of the coup in Niger. They discuss the latest developments and implications.

James is a Lagos-based research fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Ep. 96 — New UN report on al Qaeda and the Islamic State Aug 02, 2023

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Bill is again joined by Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown to discuss the latest report from the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team (which Edmund previously led). Released on July 25, 2023, the Team's thirty-second report provides an update on al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Bill and Edmund unpack findings, discuss a few highlights, and also explain some points of disagreement.

Read the UN Report here.

Ep. 95 — Is Africa the epicenter of today's jihad? Jul 18, 2023

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Is Africa the epicenter of today's jihad? Bill and Caleb discuss, including in the context of Mali, the drawdown of African Union forces in Somalia, and one of Uganda's worst terrorist attacks in more than a decade.

Ep. 94 — Al Qaeda has key roles in Taliban's Afghanistan Jun 15, 2023

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Bill welcomes back to the show Generation Jihad regular Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown. Now a member of the Counter Extremism Project's advisory board, Edmund previously served as the UK's Ambassador to Yemen and later as the coordinator of the U.N. Security Council’s Sanctions Monitoring Team.

Edmund's former team at the U.N. just released its latest report on Afghanistan which details (among other troubling issues) just how embedded al Qaeda is in Afghanistan's Taliban government.

Bill and Edmund dissect the report's findings.

Ep. 93 — Context for Turkey's election May 13, 2023

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Host Bill Roggio is joined by two of his FDD colleagues to unpack the context surrounding Turkey's imminent presidential elections.

Jonathan Schanzer is the Senior Vice President for Research at FDD, where Sinan Ciddi is a non-resident senior fellow. Both are Turkey experts. (One has taken a harder hit from pro-government Turks on Twitter than the other.)

From President Erdogan's thinly-veiled political opportunism — like his 180 on Syria; his regional charm offensive, particularly with Israel; and his role as a U.S. "counterterrorism partner" — and his blatant corruption — like his mismanagement of earthquake aid and his allowing Turkey to be a terrorist superhighway — to an opposition candidate's eleventh hour dropout, this is your starter pack for understanding what's about to unfold in Turkey.

Want to know more? Here's what to read:

U.S. Demands More Sanctions Enforcement From Turkey

U.S. and Turkey Take Joint Action to Disrupt ISIS Financing

No US-Turkey Rapprochement Is Possible Under Erdogan

Turkey Wants a Post-election Reset with Washington

Will Erdogan Embrace The West?

U.S. Sanctions Turkish Entities for Aiding Russian War Effort

Biden Must Tell Erdogan To Stop Targeting US Partners

Turkey Supports Hamas, Which Means an Alliance With Israel Isn’t Going To Happen

Turkey’s Erdogan must take concrete action on Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood

Hamas Operatives in Turkey Recruit Palestinians for Terror Attacks

Turkey’s Earthquake: The Buck Stops with Erdogan

Turkey’s Crimes Against Humanity Under ICC Spotlight

Erdogan faces growing backlash over earthquake mismanagement

Erdogan Threatens to Discard Election Results

In Support of a Democratic Turkey

Turkey After Erdogan

Ep. 92 — Islamic State deep dive May 10, 2023

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Host Bill Roggio and co-host Caleb Weiss are joined by the associate professor for national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, Dr. Craig Whiteside, for a deep dive into the ranks of the Islamic State. They discuss leaders of past and present and their roles within the broader IS.

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