Corgan in The Boston Herald on U.S. Victory in Raqqa
Michael Corgan, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was recently interviewed on the victory of United States forces over ISIS in the terrorist group’s de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa.
Corgan was quoted in an October 18, 2017 article in The Boston Herald entitled “ISIS Left Reeling After Coalition Drives Group Out of De Facto Capital.”
From the text of the article:
Losing Raqqa means ISIS will no longer have the safe haven to recruit and train fighters and plan attacks, said Boston University professor Michael Corgan.
“They’ll have to adapt to this new circumstance,” Corgan said. “It means they will be less of an existential threat. That’s going to make it harder for ISIS to have a locus. Maybe they’ll go back to Somalia or South Sudan, but that puts them out of reach of the world they are trying to influence.”
Affiliated with Boston University since 1985, Michael T. Corgan has also served as Chairman of the Department of Naval Science and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History. He specializes in American government institutions, international security studies, and Icelandic government and politics. He has participated in extensive government service in political and military planning (especially NATO). You can read more about him here.