Brace for it, America. Terrorist attacks like those seen over the past 19 months in Western Europe will soon be occurring within the borders of the United States. The Paris attacks of November 2015, the surge in Western Europe in the summer of 2016, and now in the United Kingdom all portend a very grim future. This essay posits that the Islamic State is at a strategic inflection point and has produced a new “theory of victory.” Battered within the caliphate, its regional wilayats under increasing pressure, the Islamic State has turned to the final component of its being — … Continue reading A Military Assessment of the Islamic State’s Evolving Theory of Victory
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A Military Assessment of the Islamic State’s Evolving Theory of Victory
Brace for it, America. Terrorist attacks like those seen over the past 19 months in Western Europe will soon be occurring within the borders of the United States. The Paris attacks of November 2015, the surge in Western Europe in the summer of 2016, and now in the United Kingdom all portend a very grim future. This essay posits that the Islamic State is at a strategic inflection point and has produced a new “theory of victory.” Battered within the caliphate, its regional wilayats under increasing pressure, the Islamic State has turned to the final component of its being — … Continue reading A Military Assessment of the Islamic State’s Evolving Theory of Victory