Masked Hamas supporters take part in a protest against against the Israeli offensive on Gaza strip, in the West Bank city of Nablus July 31, 2014. (Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters)
Terrorist Armies Fight Smarter And Deadlier Than Ever -- Robert H. Scales and Douglas Ollivant, Washington Post
Military transformations can be hard to detect. They generally occur over decades, sometimes over generations. Soldiers are usually the first to recognize them, but for the perceptive, the signs of a sea change developing on today’s battlefields are there. Look carefully at media images of ground fighting across the Middle East, and you will notice that the bad guys are fighting differently than they have in the past.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the West confronted terrorists who acted like, well, terrorists. In Iraq and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and other militant groups relied on ambushes, roadside bombings, sniper fire and the occasional “fire and run” mortar or rocket attack to inflict casualties on U.S. forces.
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My Comment: A sobering essay on how terror groups have evolved since 9/11. I suspect that if Osama Bin Laden was still alive today .... even he would be impressed.
3 comments:
So how did they gain
this expertise? I
doubt surviving battles
tells the full tale.
There still has to
be training, infrastructure,
logistics. Where does
that come from?
ofs
I think you will find that all paths lead back to Iran
I do think Iran is behind
a lot of it, but I'm not
sure I understand how
they would be behind
training AQI/ISIL/ISIS/IS.
ofs
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