Op/Ed Articles
”NATO’s Narrative Needs,” Homeland Security Today (March 19, 2023) - Click Here
“The Heart of Strategic Influence: Aristotle’s Contribution to Addressing Disinformation,” Homeland Security Today (January 10, 2022) - Click Here
“ISIS-K and the Flight Between the Ears,” Homeland Security Today (December 13, 2021) - Click Here
“Re-Writing the Ending: Afghanistan,” Homeland Security Today (September 30, 2021) - Click Here
“The State of Narrative Warfare: Learning from Afghanistan in thee War for Influence,” Homeland Security Today (September 10, 2021) - Click Here
“Honoring the Promise,” Homeland Security Today (August 31, 2021) - Click Here
“Why Force Protection Must Include Narrative Warfare Readiness,” co-author with Paul Cobaugh for Homeland Security Today (April 10, 2021) - Click Here
“Disinformation is Not the Problem and Information in Not the Solution,” Homeland Security Today, (February 6, 2021) - Click Here
"PERSPECTIVE: Why Law Enforcement Needs a Proactive Narrative Strategy with Protests," co-authored with Frank Straub for Homeland Security Today (July 31, 2020) - Click Here
"Why Misuse of Police Power at Protests Undermines Respect for Law," co-authored with Frank Straub for The Crime Report (July 31, 2020) - Click Here
"The Intelligence We Need to Succeed at Influence" for Homeland Security Today (June 15, 2020) - Click Here
"PERSPECTIVE: Make Collaboration Great Again to Confront Coronavirus Pandemic" for Homeland Security Today (April 10, 2020) - Click Here
"Head Shots, Body Shots, or Lead with an Influence Strategy" for SOF News (April 6, 2020) - Click Here
Ajit Maan is interviewed in "Homeland Security Experts on the Biggest Threats and Challenges the U.S. Faces in 2020" for Homeland Security Today (January 28, 2020) - Click Here
"Arm the Sheep to Counter Weaponized Disinformation Campaigns" for Homeland Security Today (November 13, 2019) - Click Here
"ISIS Announces Establishment of Province in India" for SOF News (June 3, 2019) - Click Here
"Defeat Terrorists by Dominating the Narrative Space" for Homeland Security Today (April 22, 2019) - Click Here
"Plato’s Fear: The Power of Poetry Over National Security" for Homeland Security Today (March 1, 2019) - Click Here
"Fighting the Fight We Are In" for SOF News(December 11, 2018) - Click Here
"Complete Target Audience Analysis: Triggering the Unconscious to Counter Insurgencies" in Defence and Intelligence Norway (November 19, 2018; reprinted from NS Journal, November 13, 2019) - Click Here
"Narrative Warfare" for RealClearDefense.com (February 27, 2018) - Click Here
"The Fleeting Soft Power Opportunity in Yemen" for RealClearDefense.com (January 16, 2018) - Click Here
"Recruitment Narratives: Cutting Off the Legs Isn't Enough" for Defence and Intelligence Norway (January 16, 2018) - Click Here
"Addressing Domestic Terrorism and the White-Wing" for RealClearDefense.com (October 3rd, 2017) - Click Here
"Battles Can Be Won With Kinetics, but Wars Are Won With Influence," Ajit Maan's May 23rd article for RealClearDefense.com is reprinted in Indian Strategic Studies (May 29, 2017) - Click Here
"Battles Can Be Won With Kinetics, but Wars Are Won With Influence," Ajit Maan's May 23rd article for RealClearDefense.com is reprinted in The Briefiing Room (May 25, 2017) - Click Here
"Battles Can Be Won With Kinetics, but Wars Are Won With Influence" for RealClearDefense.com (May 23, 2017) - Click Here
"Improving Our Predictive Capacities Against Terror Attacks by Individuals" for Defence and Intelligence Norway (March 27, 2017) - Click Here
"How Immigrants Can Help Us Better Understand American Identity" for Foreign Policy (March 2, 2017) - Click Here
"How Narrative Impacts Warfare" for Defence and Intelligence Norway (January 19, 2017) - Click Here
"What can we predict about U.S.-India relations in the coming Trump years?" for Foreign Policy (December 1, 2016) - Click Here
"How the Master Narratives Are Impacting the Meta Narratives on Syria" for Defence and Intelligence Norway (September 13, 2016) - Click Here
"The Responsibility to Protect in the Context of State-Sponsored Terror," co-authored with Howard Gambrill Clark for Defence and Intelligence Norway (July 7, 2016) - Click Here
"How to think about Orlando," co-authored with Joseph Trindal and Supreet Manchanda for Foreign Policy (June 13, 2016) - Click Here
"It Is Past the Time for the American U.S Military to Open its Doors to Sikhs," Ajit Maan's June 2nd article from Foreign Policy is reprinted on SikhNet.com (June 7, 2016) - Click Here
"Past Time to Allow Sikhs in the Military," Ajit Maan's June 2nd article from Foreign Policy is reprinted in Stars and Stripes (June 5, 2016)
"It Is Past the Time for the American U.S Military to Open its Doors to Sikhs," from Foreign Policy (June 2, 2016) - Click Here
"The Brussels Attack: What We Should Be Doing Differently," co-authored with Supreet Manchanda, CEO of Akal Security. From SikhNet.com, reprinted from their March 22nd article in Defence and Intelligence Norway (March 29, 2016) - Click Here
"The Brussels Attack: What We Should Be Doing Differently," co-authored with Supreet Manchanda, CEO of Akal Security, from Defence and Intelligence Norway (March 22, 2016) - Click Here
"Narrative: The Critical Component of Counter-Terrorism Strategy," Ajit Maan's July 2015 article in Small Wars Journal is reprinted in Defence and Intelligence Norway (March 16, 2016) - Click Here
"Add Women and Stir" - response to Suzanne Nossel's "A Feminist Foreign Policy" in Foreign Policy (March 7, 2016) - Click Here
"Right-Wing Extremism," from The Register-Guard(January 7, 2016) - Click Here
"ISIS is Not a Terrorist Organization," from Small Wars Journal (December 29, 2015) - Click Here
"Foreign Policy: la forza della narrativa. Il (vero) campo di battaglia dell’ISIS," Ajit Maan's December 3rd article from Foreign Policy is reprinted in the Italian online journal, Cosmonitor.com (December 16, 2015) - Click Here
"MetaNarratives: 5 Influential Books on Narrative," from Medium.com (December 7, 2015) - Click Here
"Narratives Are About 'Meaning,' Not 'Truth,'" from Foreign Policy, (December 3, 2015) - Click Here
"Business in India: Suicide Nets and Caste Conflict" from Sunday Sentinel (November 29, 2015). Note: This article was originally published by Medium.com - Click Here
"Suicide Nets and Caste Conflict: Welcome to Business in India," from Medium.com (October 15, 2015) - Click Here
"Social Risk in West Africa: Guinea’s Impending Election Results," from the Enodo Global blog (October 15, 2015) - Click Here
"The Heart of the Common Man: The Battleground of Asymmetric Conflict" from Indian Strategic Studies, reprinted from her August 19th article in Indian Defence Review (August 20, 2015) - Click Here
"The Heart of the Common Man: The Battleground of Asymmetric Conflict" from Indian Defence Review(August 19, 2015) - Click Here
"Population-Centric Military Strategy" from Real Clear Defense (August 3, 2015) - Click Here
"Conflict Analysis: A Paradigm Shift to a Population-Centric Strategy," co-authored with James Sisco, appearing in "The Strategy Bridge" on Medium.com (July 29, 2015) - Click Here
"U.S. Prisons Play Role in Domestic Terrorism," from The Register-Guard (July 29, 2015) - Click Here
"Maoist Insurgency: A Strategy to Erode Popular Support," co-authored with James Sisco in Indian Defence Review (July 18, 2015) - Click Here
"Narrative: The Critical Component of Counter-Terrorism Strategy," from Small Wars Journal (July 14, 2015) - Click Here
"Women Are More Than Victims, So It Is Time to Focus Security Strategies on Them," co-authored with James Sisco in Foreign Policy (May 14, 2015) - Click Here
"Bad Intelligence and Hard Power," from Medium.com - a reprinting of "Use of Torture Feeds Islamic State's Narrative" (May 10, 2015) - Click Here
Ajit Maan is the co-author (with James Sisco) of "The 'Kill/Capture' Approach Ain't Working for Us: Narratives Do Better than Drones," in Foreign Policy(April 23, 2015) - Click Here
"Feminist Foreign Policy Not a Women's Issue," from The Register-Guard (April 20, 2015) - Click Here
"Use of Torture Feeds Islamic State’s Narrative," from the The Register-Guard (January 8, 2015) - Click Here
"Sikhs Tortured for Religious Beliefs," in American Turban (October 31, 2014) - Click Here