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Is it possible to eliminate the Boko Haram? The Boko Hraam is a Nigeria based terrorist group that we have gained support from the well-known group al-Qaeda. This group has constructed hundreds of attacks that have resulted in the in the death and injury of thousands of people. The results of this group have pushed their name past the well-known group ISIS which is the more well-known group when it comes to terrorists. During the fiscal year 2014 they were known as the deadliest terrorist group in the world. The group set out to overthrow the Nigerian government due to their backing from the western world. They are another terrorist group that is not ok with western civilization moving in on their world and will do everything in their power to stop it. The group has both local and non-state actors providing support to them. If we are going to combat groups like this we as a country are going to need to come up with a modern counterterrorism strategy to fight the modern terrorist, enhance our intelligence gathering methods, have the ability to share intelligence between domestic and international partners, stop radicalization within the United States, reduce and eventually eliminating all financing to terrorist organizations, create new alliances with foreign countries, and develop partnerships within our own communities in order to successfully prevent domestic terrorism. A countries stability and their security are all crucial and need to be protected by effective
counterterrorism methods. Counterterrorism is a very complicated thing to conduct and to do so we need to gain and understanding on what terrorism is described as. Terrorism is an unlawful use of acts of violence or utilizing intimidation techniques against civilian personnel with the goal of achieving political goals or instilling fear and panic in others. The world has seen the effects of both domestic and international terrorism throughout all of time. The most well-known
terrorist attack on the United States was the deadly attack of September 11, 2001, where terrorist hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon. The
results of these attacks created widespread panic and fear throughout the country almost instantly. But it also brought together the citizens of our country and with that came National Strategies to combat terrorist. The world has had methods to combat terrorism but as the terrorists evolve so must our methods. Our leaders need to consider new solutions over the traditional military methods and more broad strategic policies. Some effective policies to consider would be information warfare, and public diplomacy. If we are to fight a war against ideology, we need to have policies that have information on operations that have the right tactical
and operational objectives. A war on ideologies would help the United States and our allies gain the ability to cripple organizations like Al-Qaeda, ISS, and Boko Haram. This must be done strategically and as a combined team if we are going to pish people away from radicalizing and pushing them back to true religious beliefs not those of extremists. Our country needs to increase
the collection of information, monitoring of personnel, and increasing our methods to combat enemy personnel. In today’s world we need personnel that have the ability to collect intelligence off of the more common data sharing networks like social media platforms. Terrorists are known to recruit and show their attacks over social media platforms. We need more personnel trained to gather intelligence across the internet and be able to accurately report their findings. State, local, and federal law enforcement agencies need to work together by having the ability to closely monitor potential threats and send Intel to neighboring organizations. Fusion cells were already created and serve as a great tool for government agencies to transfer intelligence to one another and monitor personnel. Sometimes the best defensive of terrorism is going on the offensive. The United States need to have the ability to conduct more offensive operations in order to eliminate terrorist groups at the source. By doing this we will be able to prevent groups from growing and gaining more influence. Once inteliigence is gathered on terrorist network locations the United
States will need to conduct targeted strikes against these groups and send personnel to these locations to ensure the threat is eliminated. By crippling the organization this will make sure they
can no longer work, and it will show other terrorist organizations that our country will not allow these actions to continue. Cyber intelligence cells will seek out and eliminate cyberterrorism and terrorist groups from having the ability to use social networks to push out their word and their propaganda. The United States will also need to continue to strengthen our borders, increase border personnel and increase our ability to vet personnel finding and stopping potential terrorists. Forner President bush believed in well-coordinated air strikes against terrorist cells (Geltzer, J. Alexander). In order to eliminate terrorism, we will need to enhance our intelligence gathering skills and our means to disseminating that intelligence. We will put together a stronger National Counterterrorism Center that is aimed at using the newest intelligence gathering methods while recruiting the top analysts across the country. We will combine the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies as well as international partners for gathering the most up to date intelligence on radicalists and terrorist organizations. From there we will create a system for disseminating information out to the communities so we can empower our local population. By empowering people with this knowledge, we will create stronger communities that will look out for terrorist threats and report suspicious activities through the proper channels. We will continue to build on our relationship with our allies by ensuring we share the most up to date intelligence gathering techniques with them as well as any relevant information we have gathered. By empowering the local communities, we will be able to put in an effort to stop radicalization within our country. Radicalizations stems from minds that are easily influenced by international terrorist groups or in domestic terrorists’ case they are radicalized by their swayed opinions of our
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government. If we are going to stop terrorist groups from radicalizing our young minds, we will need to eliminate their means of communicating with them. Terrorists are able to link in with young people through social media platforms, inside of mosques, and on college campuses. They
know that the young college minds are the ones easily influenced and will “rise up” against their government if pushed hard enough. If we are going to stop them, we will need to identify the patterns, their locations, and the networks these individuals work out of. In doing so we will be able to prevent them from entering our country and influence our nations young minds. We will need to use their social media propaganda against them. We will show college campuses the effects of terrorism and how it effects the innocent lives in our country. We will show them that these terrorist groups do not care about them, and they are only out to achieve their own personal
goal of instilling fear and panic in free nations. Once all of this is achieved, we will then be able to stop terrorist groups from radicalizing our citizens. For Domestic terrorist becoming radicalized, as stated before we will continue to empower our communities to have the tools necessary to spot domestic terrorists and be able to prevent domestic attacks from happening. Terrorists are able to enter our country to influence our citizens and conduct their attacks because
someone is always funding their campaigns. To stop them we need to eliminate their source of funding. The world has become more reliant on technology, we use it for everything in our daily life to include run our finances. Terrorist groups are no different, they use the web to sell propaganda, recon targets, recruit, and to gain finances from interested parties. It is smart of them
so they can gain funding across the globe, but it can also be their downfall. By using the internet,
we can create a team aimed at tracking their digital footprint and trace exactly where their money
comes from. Once we shut down their sources, they will lose the means to pay for their activities
and attacks. We need to combat the funding of these groups and we will do so by implementing laws and regulations that will prevent anyone from giving financial aid to a group labeled as a terrorist organization. For organizations like Boko Haram that fund themselves through drugs, trafficking, and kidnapping we will create a team dedicated to gathering intelligence on the people they target and following their drug trade. By eliminating their drug trade and trying to stop kidnapping we will eliminate their funding methods. Terrorism is an international threat which means its an international problem. We need to reestablish a dedicated counterterrorism task force that is dedicated to a combined effort in eliminating terrorism. We will do this by recruiting the topmost dedicated personnel to an international team that serves the purpose of eliminating terrorism on a combined front. The world becomes more separated as terrorist groups begin to grow. Almost every free country has experienced what happens when we stand by and do nothing about a known threat. We continue to watch each other be affected by terrorism and not give each other the tools to stop it. With a combined effort we can combine each nations skill sets to achieve the same goal of combating terrorism. Having subject matter experts from every region is better than a team of American officials that have no knowledge on the ins and outs of each country. Just like we need an international committee aimed at stopping terrorism, we also need that at home in our local communities. Every community needs to have their own classes that discuss what to look for when it comes to identifying terrorists, the traits of domestic terrorists, who to call when one is found, what action can be taken when one is found. As we saw after events like the bombing of Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Americans will always stand up to protect their country. All we need to do is give them the tools to do so. American deserve the knowledge and ability to protect themselves.
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