ISIS Tactics

As I'm getting older and the week goes by I'm realizing more that Sundays are the best days. This is the only day that I have the luxury to relax and spend time with my amazing son. I often like to take him to places that would not only be educational for the us both but enhances our bond as well. In the mist of going to school and working full time, spending time with him is compromised by life and day-to-day responsibilites. Despite this, I always ensure to instill in him that family comes first and sacrifices must always be made for the better. This particular Sunday we went to the Brooklyn Musuem. This one eye catching sculpture stopped us in our tracks. I knew that this work of art embodied the core of my being. It illustrated my love

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, popularly known as ISIS and Daesh, is the 21st centuries rising global threat to humanity. The world has united to reduce and ultimately prevent genocide. In the paper ISIS will be referenced as Daesh. The initial part of the essay will cover Daesh origins, ideology, goals, and objectives. It is essential to know the similarities of the present Daesh brutalities and historic barbarisms of Wahhabism. The rest of the essay will focus on leadership, funding, and capabilities, such as physical bases support locations. The conclusion will attempt to raise concern of the internal threat within the United States. This essay will be limited to sources not having access to restricted or classified information. The closing goal of this essay is to embolden the serious threat to the United States and other countries seeking pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

Since the very first war on record, each belligerent has attempted to find more advanced ways to defeat the other. Usually wars have been fought traditionally: “In terms of conventional, classic war, definitions are almost identical around the world: type of war where weapons of mass destruction are not used, only classical combat means, the fight is fought only by regular armed forces” (Frunzet), called conventional warfare. As populations around the globe grew, another type of warfare came about. This other warfare can be classified as, “activities taken to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, undermine or overthrow a government or occupying power by operations conducted through or with illegal auxiliary or guerrilla power, in a restricted area” (Frunzet), this is known as unconventional warfare. Most adversaries that the United States has faced can be classified as either a conventional or unconventional force. Since moving into the information revolution, there is another type of battle tactic that has come into existence: cyber warfare. This involves attacking enemies via the Internet, targeting anything that requires Internet access, such as power plants. Recently, U.S. forces and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have noticed a new type of war and given a name to this different style of war: hybrid warfare. Hybrid warfare is not new; it has been around for some time, but it was not until recently that it has been studied.

Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the political void left in its wake, a rapid formation of extreme Islamic groups occurred within and surrounding Iraq. Growing in power continuously ISIS (The Islamic state of Iraq and Syria), created Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi (McCants 2015:10), would become the center topic in geopolitical conversations regarding terrorism and extremism within the U.S. Revisiting the U.S prior to the turn of the 21st century in the 1970s and on, Gang violence was the main wildfire problem within U.S boarders due to the growing drug market and “culture wars” stemming from marginalized groups establishing their own agendas (culture of gangs 45). Within the last decade ISIS (Islamic State, Da’esh, ISL) has become the current

Many people believe that a war can be fought against anyone and anywhere. However, this is not true. I.S.I.S., also known as Daesh, is a Sunni insurgent group whose goal is to establish an Islamic state to practice their religion freely without dissent. While some people may argue that Daesh is simply a religious institution because everything that it aims to accomplish (freedom of religion and an Islamic government, or caliph), others argue it is political because of its desire to set up a government. No matter how the situation is looked at, it is a clear problem because there is no real way to fight it. Contrary to a popular belief, this conflict is not just “one of those wars” that is good versus evil; it is so much more. Daesh (ISIS)

During the last decade, the Middle East has attracted the attention of the world’s eye for many reasons. Particularly, for the socials, political, and economic changes that have happened in these countries through the years. Consequently, the Middle East has lived a massive wave of military interventions, civil wars, violence, and death. Specifically, in the region of Iraq and Syria, where the people suffer the consequences of all the conflicts and affect the social development of this community. Under these circumstances, many military and terrorist affiliate groups have emerged, such as Al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the most notorious and bloody one ISIS. Particularly, these groups have some religion's background, and their values are

While the United States has taken some action to deal with this pressing issue, it has not been enough thus far. According to the Journal of Strategic Security, specializing in the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, point out that military launches through air strikes have managed to lessen ISIS’s control in Iraq and Syria by de-financing the group through limiting their use access oil. However, this alone has not and will not stop the functioning of ISIS. The Journal of Strategic Security expresses that while the military movement was a good effort, ISIS has plans “to expand its support base and intensify its attacks outside of Iraq and Syria.” Simply putting restrictions on ISIS is not enough, just as attacking from the air is counter productive and causing more damage rather than removing ISIS. Likewise, the Journal of Strategic Security continues to discuss that ISIS has a solid group of foreign fights worldwide that are disposable and able to be controlled easily. This leaves room for continual attacks and replenishment of members. Thus, it is imperative that the United States use ground troops to eradicate

Today, one of the biggest issues facing the United States as well as the rest of the world is the Sunni-militant group which goes by the name of “ISIS,” or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It has been the topic for major discussion for the past three years, with many leaders of major countries and nations trying to figure out how to defeat them. ISIS is a powerful force and has been for several years and many countries including the United States are trying to figure out how to stop them.

Russian hybrid warfare threatens U.S. interests in allied democratic governments, European territorial integrity, and international peace. Combining elements of disinformation tactics, psychological manipulation, economic exploitation, and irregular military operations, Russian hybrid warfare seeks to destabilize American and allied forces by blurring the line between peace and war. American officials should care about Russian hybrid warfare because it undermines U.S. reputational credibility in guaranteeing security, risks a conventional arms race in both Western and Eastern Europe, and creates the possibility of Russian emergence as a Eurasian regional hegemon. In response, the U.S. government can do nothing, pursue conciliation with Russia, strengthen nonmilitary opposition, or engage in a military buildup. I recommend a strategy of nonmilitary opposition, with military units employed purely as a deterrent of last resort. Specifically, the U.S. government should: reassure European allies with rhetoric and diplomacy explicitly guaranteeing the

ISIS is a mysterious but well publicized group of people, that mainly covers the Middle East with force. The Islamic State is unknown and yet to be discovered by the United States government. People across Europe are joining ISIS, many are regular citizens around the world, but some become psychopaths and cause ISIS to control places with supreme radical tactics. The group is becoming more powerful and modernized as time goes on. This is leading up to a world wide crisis based on what ISIS really is and what they want. Throughout the article What ISIS Really Wants, Graeme Woods shows that ISIS is a very dominant/threatening group, and wants to be known.

Global Ethics & Ecosystems religion throughout the world. Many politicians have tried to understand and deal with the group but it is an impossible feat because there hasn’t been this radical of a religious group in the current generations. If only they were around for the crusades, maybe Isis could be dealt with more educatedly. However, that is not the case and we must do our best to interpret who they are and what exactly they want. Multitudes of news outlets, magazines, and articles have all tried to answer this seemingly simple question. But the two counterarguments crafted by Graeme Wood and Mehdi Hasan seem to be the most tangible. The

ISIS gains publicity through media by posting beheadings, and military videos on social media, which then is picked up by news broadcasters. A major way ISIS propaganda gets spread, is re-tweets from twitter. Twitter is popular format for people to “tweet” their opinions, ideas, and spread awareness, ISIS on the other hand, will make individual twitter accounts,

As the 20th century saw the nature of warfare move away from line by line battalion formation fighting to trench warfare in the First World War, to the highly aggressive and audacious blitzkrieg methodology implemented by Nazi Germany in the Second World War and the introduction of counterinsurgency operations highlighted by French and then American involvement in Vietnam, so too does the nature of warfare adapt to 21st century technology and the seemingly fragile geopolitical landscape. This new form of fighting rears its ugly head in the form of hybrid warfare. As far as definitions are concerned, the United States Army defines a hybrid threat as a diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and/or criminal elements all unified to achieve mutually benefiting effects (Department of the Army, 2010). The recent event I chose that demonstrations a hybrid threat would be the Russian annexation of Crimea and its destabilization of eastern Ukraine.

A hybrid threat is, according to TC 7-100, ?the diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and/or criminal elements all unified to achieve mutually benefitting effects.?[footnoteRef:1] This essay will address three of the four major characteristics of a hybrid threat. A hybrid threat comes in different forms, but they almost always employ some combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and criminal elements simultaneously, employ an ever-changing variety of equipment and tactics, and acquire or refine their ability to adapt[footnoteRef:2]. [1: Department of the Army, Hybrid Threat (Washington: United States Army Publishing Directorate, 2010), 1-1.] [2: Ibid., 1-1?1-3.]

ISIS, or Daesh, is an Islamic terrorist organization that spawned from a marriage between disgruntled rebels in Syria and Iraq, and a splinter group from the weakened terrorist group, Al Qaeda. Formerly known as AQI or (Al Qaeda in Iraq), ISIS went through multiple stages of development before becoming what it is today. In this paper, I will be exploring only two of the many causes of ISIS' rise: The Arab spring's effect of paving the way for ISIS, and the convoluted US politics that allowed, and eventually helped to create ISIS itself.