John Arquilla, Anti-Terrorist Study, Naval Postgraduate School said: “It is most curious that the areas where we have military operations have the most attacks. These statistics suggest that our war on global terrorism is not going very well. It suggests we need to try a new approach. American tactics in some parts of Iraq were beginning to be adjusted to achieve better results, notably in Anbar Province, where American commanders are working closely with Sunni tribal leaders to counter Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.”
Frank C. Urbancic Jr., the State Department’s acting coordinator for counterterrorism, said: "The statistics reflected the viral spread of terrorists’ methods. In Afghanistan, there has been a rapid rise in suicide attacks mimicking those in Iraq, and methods for making improvised explosive devices have evolved in the face of American moves to counter them.
The terrorists, there’s no question, are intelligent people, and they learn from each other. The people in Afghanistan are watching the people in Iraq, the people in Iraq are watching the people elsewhere, and there’s a snowball effect. And they work through the Internet, they communicate.
While killing and capturing key terrorist actors is fundamental in combating terrorism, these actions do not eliminate the threat, We must also seek to build trusted networks of governments, private citizens and organizations, multilateral institutions, and business groups that will work collaboratively to defeat the threat from violent extremism and its radical ideology.”
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
I entirely agree with Frank C. Urbancic Jr. that "We must also seek to build trusted networks of governments, private citizens and organizations, multilateral institutions, and business groups that will work collaboratively to defeat the threat from violent extremism and its radical ideology." However, there is one serious problem here. In order to achieve that vital objective the United States need appropriate basic, special, and advanced Ideological Instruments and Force.
Recognition of the ideological nature of the Global War on Terror points out to a challenging problem of a current lack of professional Ideological Forces and Ideological Instruments necessary for combating ideologically motivated enemy. Consequently, U.S. anti-terrorist Ideological Doctrine and Nation’s Historic Mission are not clearly enough articulated to a general public neither domestically, nor abroad.
(Read more...)It is unrealistic to defeat "violent extremism and its radical ideology" without an inclusive anti-terrorist Ideological Education on all levels and mighty anti-terrorist Ideological Propaganda Machine combining mass media, press, book publishing, Internet, and etc. It is not viable, whatsoever, to win “
ideological struggle” without ideologically charged arts, including Performing Arts - drama, opera, ballet, music, motion pictures, TV shows, radio shows, and other basic Ideological Instruments. Music of Victory has to be played with right Instruments. (
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