Trump Team Seeks Names of Officials Working to Counter Violent Extremism
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A new thread as President Trump may pursue ISIS / Daesh differently. So some posts from 2017 will be moved here.
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1) Beyond the frontline: watching ISIS
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2) ISIS: an essential reading collection
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3) Foreign fighters in Iraq & Syria
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Direct combat with ISIS appears in the current Iraq and Syrian war threads. A few other threads exist and are not suitable for merging:
a) Iraq: Out of the desert into Mosul (closed)
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Weakened Militarily, ISIS Still Has Power to Sow Mayhem
A short commentary by RUSI's Rafaello Pantucci, with a sub-title:Link:http://www.newstatesman.com/world/mi...e-will-do-2017Quote:
In retreat across Syria and Iraq, will the newer terror group emulate the strategy honed by al-Qaeda?
Charlie Winter under the auspices of ICSR @ Kings War Studies is the author of a report 'Media Jihad: The Islamic State's Doctrine for Information Warfare'.
One passage:Link to article and the report is within:http://us14.campaign-archive1.com/?u...5&e=dd94a5c57bQuote:
The King’s College report draws many of its conclusions from an Islamic State propaganda guidebook that surfaced online last year. Called “Media Operative, You Are a Mujahid, Too,” the booklet equates propaganda teams with armed operatives in their importance to the terrorist group and provides guidance on how to #develop messages that exploit mainstream media coverage and advance the organization’s ideology.
“Media weapons [can] actually be more potent than atomic bombs,” one passage proclaims, according to the King’s College report.
A new thread as President Trump may pursue ISIS / Daesh differently. So some posts from 2017 will be moved here.
Old threads will be closed. The main threads were:
1) Beyond the frontline: watching ISIS
With 220 posts and 142k views.
2) ISIS: an essential reading collection
With 20 posts and 47.7k views.
3) Foreign fighters in Iraq & Syria
With 39 posts and 24k views.
Direct combat with ISIS appears in the current Iraq and Syrian war threads. A few other threads exist and are not suitable for merging:
a) Iraq: Out of the desert into Mosul (closed)
b) A hundred SWJ Blog entries
USCENTCOM: More U.S. Troops May Be Needed Against ISIS in Syria
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A New Strategy Against ISIS and al Qaeda
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Iraq Says U.S. Vows to Speed Support in ISIS Battle
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Counter-terrorism Pitfalls: What the U.S. Fight against ISIS and al-Qaeda Should Avoid
https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-e...a-should-avoid
This report examines President Trump’s emerging counter-terrorism policies, the dilemmas his administration faces in battling ISIS and al-Qaeda across the Middle East and South Asia, and how to avoid deepening the disorder both groups exploit.
The title has just been changed to widen it from just ISIS, so is now Responding to ISIS & Terrorism under President Trump and being wider than the Middle East moved to this arena Global Threats etc. A few SWJ Blog items have been moved here too.
Interview with RAND's Patrick Johnston on tackling the Islamic State's finances.
Trump Grants Generals More Freedom on ISIS
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After ISIS, the US Military Could Help Keep Iraq Stable
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On the Mosul Front, a Brutal Battle Against ISIS and Time
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Adam Deen, a former jihadist and now with the London-based Quilliam Foundation, predicts in this article 'The Emergence Of Meta-Jihad: Why Defeating Isis Won’t End The Plague Of Terrorism':Link:http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/adam..._16383496.htmlQuote:
Islamist extremism is now entering, or one could even say has already stepped into, its third, and perhaps most dangerous phase. This new emergence of the ‘meta-jihad’ is one that is purely based on a hyper ideology struggle. Any way of life that is not equal to their world view is seen as hostile and more importantly an offence against God.
I note he foresees attacks in places so far with fewer problems, such as Sweden. Today a Swiss Minister cautioned his nation on becoming a target and whilst Malaysia has a history with jihadists this report suggests ISIS is at work there:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/natio...c-state-links/
U.S. to Arm Syrian Kurds to Fight ISIS, Despite Turkey’s Objections
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Turkey, U.S. at Odds Over Force to Fight ISIS
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To Defeat ISIS for Good, The U.S. Needs to Take the War Beyond the Battlefield
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Mattis, Dunford, McGurk Cite Coalition Progress to Annihilate ISIS
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The U.S. Joins the Philippines in a Battle Against ISIS
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As the struggle for Mosul nears a climax Professor Paul Rogers has an article sub-titled:Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-r...term-prospect?Quote:
The caliphate is besieged. But ISIS can take heart from global trends working in its favour.
(Shortly after) the much broader question of whether ISIS, its offshoots and like-minded extreme movements – whether these are rooted in religious, political, nationalist or ethnic identities – may develop further, and even coalesce into broad “revolts from the margins”.
(Later) In short, there are many tens of millions of young, educated and knowledgeable people across the Middle East, Africa and Asia who have grounds to see the world from an entirely different perspective to leaderships and elites in the global north.
So if you were an investor in mayhem where would you invest?
"Whackamole" hardly seems appropriate.