The Global War on Terror: Mistaking Ideology as the Center of Gravity

Smart, Cheryl L.

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“…23 However, the identification of the ideology as the COG has been reported to be more of an incorrect application of a cold war mentality than reality because Islamist ideology shows such great diversity that there is not a single ideology to be discredited. 24 While political ideology can be replaced and overcome, religious ideology is persistent and resilient to defeat. 25 Religious-based ideology cannot be classified as the COG because a properly identified COG -creates prerequisites for selecting a sound method of applying one's military and nonmilitary sources of power.‖ 26 Therefore, AQAN's radical ideology does not provide the prerequisites for developing methods of applying military and nonmilitary sources of power.…”

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Global Takfiri Radicalization: A Center of Gravity Deconstruction

Newell¹

2010

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Global Takfiri Radicalization: A Center of Gravity Deconstruction

Newell¹

2010

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Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims

McCauley

2011

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Four national polls of Muslim Americans conducted between 2001 and 2007 were reviewed to find items tapping possible sources of sympathy and justification for jihadist violence: anti-Muslim discrimination, radical Islam, and economic and political grievance. These items were correlated with items representing three elements of the global-jihad frame: seeing the war on terrorism as a war on Islam or "insincere," justifying suicide attacks in defense of Islam, and favorable views of Al Qaeda. The three elements of the global-jihad frame were no more than weakly related to one another and had different predictors. Discussion suggests that the U.S. "war of ideas" may need to target separately the different elements of the global-jihad frame.Attempts to understand terrorism usually begin with the terrorists, and a sizeable literature has explored whether or how terrorists emerge from conditions of poverty, alienation, extremist ideology, and political grievance (Blair

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The Global War on Terror: Mistaking Ideology as the Center of Gravity

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Global Takfiri Radicalization: A Center of Gravity Deconstruction

Global Takfiri Radicalization: A Center of Gravity Deconstruction

Testing Theories of Radicalization in Polls of U.S. Muslims

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