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The Cyber Defense Review

Combatting the Rise of ISIS 2.0 and Terrorism 3.0

By Oz Sultan | July 31, 2018

In the early 1990s, a then-nascent al-Qaeda took steps to redefine both the nature of conflict and the nature of ideological foundations for waging war. The United States military deployment to the Middle East following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait drove Osama bin Laden to deviate from both defined Islamic theology and fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and take a more ‘guerilla’ approach to combating what he saw as US aggression. Bin Laden deviated from both religion and traditional conventions of war to declare US Troops, supporting contractors, Arab troops, and even fellow Muslims and non-combatant villagers as enemies of al-Qaeda—should they prove to be obstacles to al-Qaeda’s goals of regional control and hegemony.

 

Combatting the Rise of ISIS 2.0 and Terrorism 3.0



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