In 2006, Mr. Coughlin's thesis, "To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad," was accepted by the National Defense Intelligence College, and details the doctrinal drivers of jihad within Islamic Doctrine, along with the failure of the United States leadership to understand this doctrine. Since writing the thesis, he has written a number of papers that followed up on the conclusions raised in the thesis. He has taught, lectured, and briefed on Capitol Hill senior members of Department of Defense, other senior U.S. government officials, and many state and local executives, legislators, and law enforcement.

Stephen Coughlin's presentations have been highly impactful and informative. His briefings forecast with precision:

• The doctrinal basis of the "radicalization" process that was used by Major Hasan to justify his actions years in advance of the Fort Hood killings
  
  
• The ongoing attempt to subordinate Western Free Speech canons, including the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that now finds itself playing out in the United Nations through UN Resolution 16/18
  
  
• The systematic fall of Middle Eastern states to the Muslim Brotherhood as early as October 2010 under cover of a democracy movement, months in advance of the "Arab Spring."
  

As part of a briefing team, the following April 2011 endorsement speaks to the caliber and strategic significance of the information Coughlin put out:

While all four of us were in senior positions in the U.S. Intelligence Community and should have been aware of this information, we were not. We first heard this critical information from these two presenters. The information is of utmost importance to the security of the United States, and is critical to formulating National Security Strategies.

The importance of this endorsement comes from those who signed. All four signatories were former heads of intelligence organizations or had direct oversight of them: Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Lieutenant General William "Jerry" Boykin, U.S. Army; Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Honorable Joseph E. Schmitz; Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Harry E. "Ed" Soyster, U.S. Army; and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Honorable James Woolsey. When last assigned to U.S. Central Command, the Director of Intelligence (J2), General Custer, said the following of Stephen Coughlin's contribution to the effort:

[Major Coughlin's] vision, and organizational skills were a driving force behind developing an Islamic "how to fight" manual[,] documents critical in developing national strategies to defeat Islamic extremists. He was instrumental in developing strategic communications doctrine integrating affairs, information operations, and defense support to public diplomacy that achieved historic results.

As Americans have sensed for some time and are now increasingly aware, something has gone very wrong with their country. Their senses do not betray them. As the potential destruction of our way of life becomes more and more understood by the general population, it becomes more disturbing to learn that a threat has creeped deeply into the foundational structures of the nation unchecked – often reflecting the merging of efforts between the Islamic Movement and Alinskyist organizations that play themselves out through the postmodern narrative.

There is a critical need to educate Americans at all levels of society, from national leaders to private citizens, as to the true nature of the existential threat that is overtaking both the American way of life and the Constitution while the country sleeps. Often the threat operates in a manner that appears friendly and helpful early on, yet whose stated objective is the destruction of Western civilization as we know it.

The refusal of our national leadership to come to grips with this threat is just one manifestation of the slow-motion catastrophe that can be laid at the very feet of the people responsible for protecting the country and the Constitution. To reverse this trend, the first step is to educate the American people on the specific nature of that threat, and its strategic and media alliances, as well as to become aware of the modus operandi of their enemy so they can be recognized, resisted, and then defeated at all levels. It starts with an informed citizenry!
Our objective is to provide fact-based analysis and education to support sound strategic forecasting and real situational awareness, and thus facilitate effective decision-making, in regard to select national security threats, with a primary focus on those threats understood foremost in terms of the risk to the Constitution through subversion.
Postmortem on the 2012 election
Stephen C. Coughlin, Esq.
November 8, 2012

Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II) [Paperback]
William J Boykin, Harry Edward Soyster, Henry Cooper, Stephen C. Coughlin, et al., authors
September 22, 2010

To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad
Stephen C. Coughlin, Esq.
July 2, 2007
(Thesis submitted to the faculty of the National Defense Intelligence College in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence)
Interview with Stephen Coughlin, Dec. 1, 2012, on Slander, defamation of Islam, and worldwide Sharia

Stephen Coughlin, Part 1: Lectures on National Security & Counterterror Analysis (Introduction)

Stephen Coughlin, Part 2: Understanding the War on Terror Through Islamic Law

Stephen Coughlin, Part 3: Abrogation & the 'Milestones' Process

Stephen Coughlin, Part 4: Muslim Brotherhood, Arab Spring & the 'Milestones' Process

Stephen Coughlin, Part 5: The Role of the OIC in Enforcing Islamic Law

Maj. Stephen Coughlin questions members of the OIC 'HRC' in DC, Dec. 13 2012

Stephen Coughlin on Glenn Beck, September 14, 2012

Steve Coughlin's Speech on Jihad and Islam for Freedom Defense Initiative

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Role in Enforcing Islamic Law

Maj. Stephen Coughlin questions members of the OIC 'HRC' in DC Dec 13 2012 [12-15-2012]

Stephen Coughlin, Days of Rage (Excerpt)

Stephen Coughlin: Who's Innocent, According to Shariah?

Benghazi: US Foreign Policy and the Influence of Shariah Doctrine

Steven Coughlin Remarks on the Benghazi Embassy Cover Up
National Security Experts Warn: Reject Brennan
David Reaboi, Center for Security Policy
February 27, 2013

Stephen Coughlin: The Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Law, and the Death Sentence Against Terry Jones
Baron Bodissey, Gates of Vienna
December 3, 2012

Major Stephen Coughlin: the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Role in Enforcing Islamic Law
Sheik Yermami
July 14, 2012

Expert on Islam and Sharia Stephen Coughlin interviewed on slander, defamation of Islam and Sharia worldwide
Tundra Tabloids
March 12, 2012

New Evidence of Anti-Islam Bias Underscores Deep Challenges for FBI's Reform Pledge
Spencer Ackerman, Wired.com
September 23, 2011

Archives: Steve Coughlin
The Counter Jihad Report
From October 17, 2011 -

Coughlin for Beginners
Jeffrey Breinholt
January 28, 2008

Pentagon Mysteries: The Coughlin Case and Who Is Hesham Islam?
Claudia Rosett, The Rosett Report
January 25, 2008

Stephen Coughlin's Thesis
Carol Iannone, National Review Online
January 23, 2008

Congressmen seek answers about Islamic law expert's firing
Jihad Watch
January 16, 2008

Saving Major Coughlin
Andrew G. Bostom, American Thinker
January 15, 2008

Stephen Coughlin's Treatise on Jihad
Andrew Bostom
January 12, 2008

Islamism and Challenges to Resources for U.S. Strategic Planning Against Jihad
Jeffrey Imm, Counterterrorism Blog
January 12, 2008

Expert on Radical Islam Fired from Pentagon
Steven Emerson, Fox News
January 11, 2008

The Implications of the Dismissal of Stephen Coughlin, Joint Staff, Pentagon
Jihad Watch
January 11, 2008

Foul Play
Diana West, The Washington Times
January 11, 2008

Coughlin Backed
Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
January 11, 2008

The Islamist Argument on the Koran
Douglas Farah, Counterterrorism Blog
January 11, 2008

A Purple Heart in war of ideas?
The Washington Times
January 8, 2008

Coughlin Sacked
Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
January 4, 2008
The Global Islamic Movement includes the fifty-seven member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – the OIC (formally representing all Muslim countries), the Muslim Brotherhood (the "vanguard" of the Movement), and al-Qaeda and related Jihadi entities (the "shock troops" of the Movement).

It is important to note that not only do all three elements claim Islam as their guiding principle, but all three declare their objective to be the re-establishment of the Caliphate (the Global Islamic State) and the re-implementation of Shari'a (Islamic Law) as the law of the land, first within the Muslim World and then throughout the entire world.

With a track record that confirms the ongoing accuracy of his analysis and warning through time, Mr. Coughlin is among a small group of people who have accurately described the doctrine of both the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC, identified their key organizations and leaders – as well as their penetration into the U.S. National Security decision-making process – and detailed the catastrophic effect their influence has had on U.S. foreign policy, including their assault on the sovereignty of our national and state governments.

We are fighting adversaries who use low-tech strategies to attack and evade a technology-dependent defense establishment. While technologies change, covert organizing principles are historic, persist over time, and are capable of running cross-culturally. Against overwhelming U.S. technological and resource superiority, terrorists, insurgents, spies, and others continue to employ rudimentary means – guided by ideologies reliant on subversive human networks – to conceal their operations.

In line with the constitutional mandate to define all threats in terms of their risk to the Constitution (Article VI of the Constitution), Mr. Coughlin seeks to establish a fact-based awareness of subversive threats in order to first bring them to light, then to counter them, and finally to defeat them. Disfavored are those soft-science rationalizations and theoretical methodologies used to justify both threat actions and friendly inactions.