Posted on Aug 20, 2017
The Islamic State May Be Failing, but Its Strategic Communications Legacy Is Here to Stay
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I might disagree with collapsing.. hard to collapse when one owns the SC initiative and your enemies are on the SC defense. Hard to beat a revolutionary force without a collective effort in beating it in the different dimensions of warfare at the same time - just the physical one only means they grow stronger in the long term.
"It is worth bearing in mind that, whether videos and photo essays or newspaper dispatches and electronic magazines, all of these materials were doubly distributed, both online and offline. Indeed, the Islamic State’s propaganda was never geared only towards radicalizing and recruiting would-be supporters on the Internet — it was just as much about coercing and maintaining support in the caliphate heartlands, too.
The sum of this activity is unambiguous: For the Islamic State, information hegemony is just as important as physical battlefield dominance, and narrative is deemed to be the decisive battlespace. At least in ideological terms, this resource allocation seems to have paid off. This is evident from the group’s seemingly sudden rise to global notoriety, its ability to usurp al-Qaeda’s place as the leader of the jihadist world (at least for now), and its unprecedented appeal to recruits from abroad."
"It is worth bearing in mind that, whether videos and photo essays or newspaper dispatches and electronic magazines, all of these materials were doubly distributed, both online and offline. Indeed, the Islamic State’s propaganda was never geared only towards radicalizing and recruiting would-be supporters on the Internet — it was just as much about coercing and maintaining support in the caliphate heartlands, too.
The sum of this activity is unambiguous: For the Islamic State, information hegemony is just as important as physical battlefield dominance, and narrative is deemed to be the decisive battlespace. At least in ideological terms, this resource allocation seems to have paid off. This is evident from the group’s seemingly sudden rise to global notoriety, its ability to usurp al-Qaeda’s place as the leader of the jihadist world (at least for now), and its unprecedented appeal to recruits from abroad."
The Islamic State May Be Failing, but Its Strategic Communications Legacy Is Here to Stay
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Sir,
Please remind me why ISIS is revolutionary. As I have stated in the past, IMO it's appeal is in following Muhammad.
I have enclosed an example of my train of thought, I beleve it is closer to the true truth. Even if 94% of Muslims do not follow this example. They are too afraid of getting murdered trying to stop it.
Kind Regards,
http://www.debka.com/article/26190/ISIS-Moroccan-net-primed-to-strike-across-Europe
Please remind me why ISIS is revolutionary. As I have stated in the past, IMO it's appeal is in following Muhammad.
I have enclosed an example of my train of thought, I beleve it is closer to the true truth. Even if 94% of Muslims do not follow this example. They are too afraid of getting murdered trying to stop it.
Kind Regards,
http://www.debka.com/article/26190/ISIS-Moroccan-net-primed-to-strike-across-Europe
ISIS Moroccan net primed to strike across Europe
Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido promised on Saturday Aug. 19 that after the Islamic State’s two car attacks had left 14 dead and more than 130 injured, the terrorist network responsible for the violence had been “fully dismantled” and no longer posed a threat. in fact: The Moroccan-based network’s terror cells across six European countries are poised for more.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Ideology - organization - purpose. We always view Revolution in 20th century communist terms and sometime in the Anarchists ones... but what if we expand that to look at it in Islamic ones.. Does doing such provide a better picture of the enemy or is it overestimating their staying power? But how did they come to their ideology? I enjoyed this article on it - thought you may as well. /
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/june/ [login to see] /robert-manne/mind-islamic-state
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/june/ [login to see] /robert-manne/mind-islamic-state
Two years ago, the armies of the group that would soon call itself the Islamic State, a group that already controlled large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, entered Mosul, the second city of Iraq. The Iraqi Army, in which the United States had invested, or perhaps wasted, US$25 billion, fled in fear. Shortly after, the group announced the restoration of the Muslim caliphate, which had been dissolved in 1924 by the leader of the Republic...
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Cpl Mark A. Morris
LTC Eric Udouj - I try to keep it KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) LTC.
What is their central focus? What do they claim they are fighting for? Who/what is the one true god fo the Kaaba?
The Imam of this last Islamic terror attack in Spain taught children. The Mosque leadership states: "The mosque checked his knowledge of the Quran only. We did not check his background, we did not check his CV."
The Mosques and Madrassas of Islam are locating the ones who will follow Muhammads commands to wage war on the Infidel inside the House of War.
Who/what is the one true god of the Kaaba? Muhammad's Uncle and Father are named after it. What was Muhammad's command to the Ummah?
The evidence points to so called Radicals are the true followers of Islam. I will still read your suggested information and I hope it changes my view of my studies on Islam.
What is their central focus? What do they claim they are fighting for? Who/what is the one true god fo the Kaaba?
The Imam of this last Islamic terror attack in Spain taught children. The Mosque leadership states: "The mosque checked his knowledge of the Quran only. We did not check his background, we did not check his CV."
The Mosques and Madrassas of Islam are locating the ones who will follow Muhammads commands to wage war on the Infidel inside the House of War.
Who/what is the one true god of the Kaaba? Muhammad's Uncle and Father are named after it. What was Muhammad's command to the Ummah?
The evidence points to so called Radicals are the true followers of Islam. I will still read your suggested information and I hope it changes my view of my studies on Islam.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Drop me a message when you get time on what you spotted in what sent that is different than such a KISS approach take on them. The enemy is not Islam itself, for that is instead the needed allied response that it will take to beat IS in the long game.
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Cpl Mark A. Morris
LTC Eric Udouj - My research on Islam and what some call extremists, I use KISS.
Page 12 of the down loadload PDF file reads God. Allah means the god. Not God. That's propaganda.
The themes helped them gain extremists? Sir, the Mosques and Madrassas are teaching following Muhammad.
ISIS, although brutal, are following Muhammad and the first 4 Caliphs.
Their propaganda is mostly the Koran and a few lies on goods and services to attract more true Sunni Muslims.
The ISIS we see today are a result of the Iraq government, after America left, started jailing the Sunni government members.
The download had it's own propaganda. Misleading the reader on Allah and so called extremists.
I realize, you have stated before, we want to drive a wedge between the 94% of Muslims not following Muhammad's second part of his life.
I can see, information can be gained on the enemy by processing their media information. But, their desire to build a Caliphate is ordered. They were pushed, in their minds, to do so.
Thank you for giving me the link to the download. It had a lot of information and I can see the CTC is reading a lot of material. I wish, they would read the Koran and the Hadiths. Also, difinintions on who are innocent, the House of Peace and the House of War.
I'm sorry it took so long to get back to you. I work two jobs and it was a long read.
Kind Regards Sir.
Page 12 of the down loadload PDF file reads God. Allah means the god. Not God. That's propaganda.
The themes helped them gain extremists? Sir, the Mosques and Madrassas are teaching following Muhammad.
ISIS, although brutal, are following Muhammad and the first 4 Caliphs.
Their propaganda is mostly the Koran and a few lies on goods and services to attract more true Sunni Muslims.
The ISIS we see today are a result of the Iraq government, after America left, started jailing the Sunni government members.
The download had it's own propaganda. Misleading the reader on Allah and so called extremists.
I realize, you have stated before, we want to drive a wedge between the 94% of Muslims not following Muhammad's second part of his life.
I can see, information can be gained on the enemy by processing their media information. But, their desire to build a Caliphate is ordered. They were pushed, in their minds, to do so.
Thank you for giving me the link to the download. It had a lot of information and I can see the CTC is reading a lot of material. I wish, they would read the Koran and the Hadiths. Also, difinintions on who are innocent, the House of Peace and the House of War.
I'm sorry it took so long to get back to you. I work two jobs and it was a long read.
Kind Regards Sir.
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