Aaron Mannes (T-H-L) is a strategically crappy article.
To quote
his Politico bio:
"Aaron Mannes, the author of Profiles in Terror: The Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations (Rowman & Littlefield-JINSA Press 2004), has been a researcher at the University of Maryland’s Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics since 2007. At UMIACS he is the subject matter expert on terrorism and international affairs to a team of inter-disciplinary scientists building cutting edge information systems to support decision-makers facing 21st century security and development problems.
He is also a PhD student at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy where he is studying the national security process and the vice president’s evolving national security role. Mr. Mannes holds a Masters from St. John’s College and from 1998 to 2001 was the director of research at the Middle East Media Research Institute, which provides timely translations of Middle Eastern media to better inform the foreign policy debate in the United States.
Mr. Mannes, the author of the blog TheTerrorWonk Plus, has written scores of articles, papers, and book chapters on an array of topics including Middle East affairs, terrorism, technology, and other international security issues for popular and scholarly publications including Policy Review, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Journal of International Security Affairs, The Huffington Post, The Washington Times, The Jerusalem Post, and The Guardian.
Mr. Mannes has lectured at universities and research institutes worldwide, including the Hudson Institute, the National Defense University, Georgetown University, and the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands. He has appeared on radio and television throughout the world, and consulted with the United States government on a range of security issues."
Books:
- Deep State Calculations: Computational Analysis of Pakistani Belligerence
(Forthcoming Autumn 2017, Springer 250 pages (with V.S. Subrahmanian)
- Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy
December 2013, Springer, 172 pages (with V.S. Subrahmanian, A. Roul, and R.K. Raghavan)
- Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba
December 2012, Springer, 231 pages (with V.S. Subrahmanian, A. Sliva, J. Shakarian, and J. P. Dickerson)
Book length analyses of terrorist groups Indian Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Taiba respectively, using cutting edge computational models to predict behavior and generate policy recommendations
- Profiles in Terror: The Guide to the Terrorist Groups of the Middle East
October 2004, Rowman & Littlefield, 372 pages
He's a bad-ass expert on the most important strategic topic the United States has, if you discount Russia, and here is his article:
Aaron Mannes (born 1970) is an American writer living in suburban Maryland. In addition to authoring Profiles in Terror: A Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations (2004), he has written on Middle East affairs and terrorism for numerous publications including Policy Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, National Review Online, The Forward, Middle East Insight, and The Journal of International Security Affairs. Mannes also speaks to groups throughout the United States and has been interviewed on radio shows worldwide.
From 1998 to 2001, Mannes was the Director of Research at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), where he wrote numerous papers and helped to establish MEMRI as a source of translations and analysis of the Middle East media.
Mannes holds a master's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Pitiful.