Ok Guys I have been off the SWJ forum grid for a while due to an OCONUS NDA, but this paper Countering ISIL’s Ideology: Keep It Limited, Focused, and in Tune with Lessons Learned made me come out of the shadows. to comment
It is interesting in that his seven points of lessons learned to counter the ISIL narrative seems to track directly with not only with Abu Yahyah al-Libi's 'Six ways to destroy al-Qaeda' written in 2007 but seems to riffs off my al-Libi based 12 recommendations of my 2010 book on counter-ideological warfare An End to Al Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden's Jihad and Restoring America's Honor and damaging al-Qaeda's narrative (pgs 217-251). I had a minimum of 51 sources refs in just that chapter so where are his?
I know he was XO at the WP CTC for a while but I would hope that if these ideas or lessons learned came out of the CTC's "Stealing al Qaeda's Playbook", Will McCant/Jarret Bachman's brilliant "The Militant Ideology Atlas" or sources like Jihadica or from al-Qaeda's own ideologues that as a scholar FPRI would go back and quickly attribute the origin of the ideas in his online postings at their website.
It also surprises me that like much of the news media he seems to think ISIL is something new as opposed to a regional evolution of AQI ideologically they are identical. Please ref the CIA NCTC, Iraqi Intelligence, Abu Ibrahim al-Baghdadi and the 2nd edition of The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014.
I'll go back under my rock, for now.
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