1. 🚨New Report Alert🚨 CTC continues its use of primary source docs to better understand militant organizations. Authored by @Dr_DMilton, this report focuses on Islamic State’s organizational structure and has a lot of takeaways. ctc.usma.edu/structure-of-a… 2. Using two spreadsheets designed to track payments, this report shows that approximately ~43,000 males were paid by the group in mid-2016 to work within the Iraq portion of caliphate alone.

How have state-led targeting ops altered ISK’s threat & trajectory in AFG & PAK? What is the nature & extent of #ISK's manpower losses, including its leadership? CTC report by @AmiraJadoon & @mines_andrew examines ops against ISK 2015-2018. THREAD ctc.usma.edu/broken-not-def… A big thanks to everyone who supported this extensive project! We are thankful to @asfandyarmir @CraigAWhiteside @DonRassler @nakissapjahan & Brian Dodwell for their excellent reviews which made this report a much better product & @KristinaKHummel for her fantastic copyediting!

New CTC report release - Minor Misery: What an Islamic State Registry Says about the Challenge of Minors in the Conflict Zone by @Dr_DMilton & @DonRassler See thread for details, some findings, & highlights ctc.usma.edu/minor-misery-i… The data & statistics in the report are derived from an IS registry captured by US military forces in Iraq that tracked the number of men, women, & minors being supported by IS-affiliated personnel. The document is almost exclusively focused on Iraq with limited info on Syria.