This article was published in Scientific America in the year 2014. The article is intended for those who seek an interest in the military and ISIS. Evidence that supports this is when Zittrain wrote, “ISIS staged a parade with its new weapons and deployed them… The U.S. began conducting air strikes and rearming the Kurds to even the score against its own weaponry.” (926) Using this in the beginning of his article helps the readers gain a better understanding of what the article will be about, making it easier to be…
For more than ten years, the west has done its utmost to crush on al Qaeda’s operational competences, which may perhaps have been diminished. The organization’s Taliban protectors were toppled in Afghanistan, and its easily accessible training camps, at one time the destination for jihadist volunteers worldwide, have been dispersed. In addition, al Qaeda attacks in Indonesia, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Turkey between 2002 and 2006 prompted those governments to attempt to dismantle local terrorist networks. Cooperation among security services and law enforcement organizations worldwide has made its operating environment increasingly hostile (Ashour, 2011). Accordingly, al Qaeda has not been able to carry out a significant terrorist operation in the West since 2005, although its ability of mounting plausible, worrisome threats is not in question.…
ISIS is nothing but a big group of thugs that uses their “religious” beliefs, and almost rules some would say to get their followers to commit these terrorizing and world shaking crimes every day. They use their beliefs to almost in a way justify their actions to their followers, and it unfortunately works. It is perceived that they know what they’re doing is not actually under their religious codes, but they are fine with that. In Black Flags, by Joby Warrick, he talks about the mayhem that is caused between individuals and their groups because of their religious beliefs they follow. Warrick talks about how Sunni Muslims lack a centralized religious hierarchy, which is why they cannot settle theological debates. They have higher ranking…
known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and Islamic State. The aim of ISIS is to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and in Syria. ISIS is known for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public executions and crucifixions. It has taken over large swaths of northern and western Iraq. The group currently controls hundreds of miles. It ignores international borders and has a presence from Syria's Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad. It rules by Sharia law. Unable to serve under the new Iraq government after Saddam Hussein's military was disbanded, former Iraqi soldiers became ISIS fighters.…
When analyzing the world's current situation concerning terrorism, it is difficult to say whether the global war on terrorism has been a successful one. Since the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Centers in New York City, George Bush, former president of the United States, vowed to defeat terrorism. Moreover, to entirely grasp the subject, one must be familiar with the definition of terrorism and it can be defined as an act of violence or threatened violence intended to spread panic in a society, and to bring about political change. Terrorists do not necessarily live in their native states, majority migrate to neighboring countries, and countries and often go undetected. The logistics and man power it takes to combat terrorism is immense, and it seems more evident that the global war on terrorism is not succeeding due to essentially three factors. First, that The United States has created a terrorist haven in the Middle East. Second, international support for the global war on terrorism is decreasing. Third, terrorism has been on the constant increase since 911. Sept 11, 2001 changed the world forever because the attack on the two most powerful economic symbols which was the Twin Towers World Trade Center and the Pentagon.…
“Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up.” -Malala Yousafzai. One of the world’s biggest threats is an extremist militant group called ISIS. They have caused mass destruction and have taken many lives around the world. In this essay, I will be educating you a little bit on who ISIS is, what they have throughout the years, and why America needs to get involved in the fight against them and how we can stop them.…
Within the past hundred years, terrorist attacks have blatantly become more severe than ever. These attacks are caused by groups who are filled with loathing towards others. In fact, one can see how terrorists are using their attacks to elicit fear and gain power in the world when analyzing the Holocaust, the events of 9/11, and the Paris bombings.…
Bibliography: Byman, Dan. "Fighting the War on Terrorism: A Better Approach." Www.tobinproject.org. N.p., 2006. Web. 11 Dec. 2013.…
It seems that Isis wants to expand their group around the world. It seems like we're having the same situation that we had almost hundred years ago with nazi’s how they got expand in Germany and eventually we had a war going. I think It shows that Isis got really powerful but it also shows that they want a lot of attention and want people to give propaganda to people so they could join them and eventually fight with them.…
ISIS can’t be overcome by only one country placing attacks, nor can it be defeated by multiple countries all attempting to do things their way. Only one country placing attacks will simply delay ISIS, but not stop them all together. However, various countries attacking…
To begin, Isis is a very dangerous group of people. First of all Isis has nuclear weapons. Isis has nuclear weapons that they use to bomb the U.S. and other countries. Next, Isis has illegal weapons. Isis imports illegal weapons so they can kill as many people as possible. They use the weapons in terrorist attacks because they are fully automatic. Lastly, Isis believes in the “god” Allah. Isis believes that the more people they kill the better their afterlife will be because their god Allah would be happier. Isis is dangerous because they kill people based on their religion, which is not how God wants his children to act.…
Needless to say many of us were dismayed when we later read the news that ISIS had taken over the entire Hawijah area in 2014. Our infantry unit had some extraordinary experiences combating terrorism in the region and also interacting with the locals in Hawijah and nearby towns. It was painful to read about atrocities inflicted by ISIS on the primarily Sunni people of the area.…
Since 2005, the Islamic group has exceeded doubling and the account of terrorism from this group has almost tripled. This growing terrorist army known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, ISIS, is becoming a threat not only to the east but to the American homeland as well. While approximately ninety percent of Americans “... view ISIS as a serious threat to U.S. national security, there remains confusion over the degree to which the group directly threatens the American homeland” (Gottlieb 2). As technology advances, terrorists are able to assimilate into our systems which can become a hazard to our people. There are both immediate and long-term risks to our country, military improvements being one of them.…
Most of the world recognizes Daesh, (more commonly, but inappropriately referred to as ISIS; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), because of their extreme beliefs, and brutality expressed towards anyone who has differing views from themselves. Daesh has roughly 10,000 fighters, and aims to completely eliminate religions that aren’t their own (Greenfield, 2016). Unfortunately, we have failed to realize that some of Daesh’s actions are more dangerous than they appear. An uninformed American might view a video of Daesh’s members knocking over a statue in the Mosul Museum and feel little concern. “It’s just a statue, right? At least they weren’t hurting a person this time. At least this isn’t happening in America”, one might think. Daesh has been destroying ancient artifacts in archaeological sites, museums, shrines, and holy places (Harmansah, 2016). One thousand eight hundred…
The terror groups ISIS works in groups. They have worked in groups by the “Islamic state group breaking out of Syria and drove the Iraqi military and proclaimed a worldwide caliphate or a whole country ruled by Islamic Law. They have “brainwashed” their own people into this group. Most terror groups such as ISIS try to…