Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Núm. 13 / 2019 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos n.º 13 - Año: 2019 - Págs.: 275 a 306 304 likelihood of ISIS adapting its strategic form and operational activities in the war theatres. For ISIS, land capture lies central to its effective structure and capacity to inflict damage on society. The dimensions of the organization can be debilitated consider-ably through targeted airstrikes on the infrastructure and other logistical resources. However, the concerted moves to limit the capacity of ISIS to disseminate tactical and operational command and radicalization initiatives on social media platforms require a careful calibration as balance is also required to gather intelligence data. Drying up finance through anti-money laundering initiatives, especially regarding hawala pro-visions, provides counterterrorist organizations with a powerful tool to deprive the terrorists of their financing, leading to sub-optimal and internecine results for the terrorist cells. The heavy reliance on the Club Model for ISIS dictates the imperatives of significant investment to fight the radical narrative through “winning the hearts and minds” of the local population via economic and social reforms. That constrains the social vacuum and space available for ISIS for recruitment and militates against its pernicious narrative. For the Lone Wolf actor inspired by ISIS, official surveillance and neighborhood watch intensity remain powerful features. This requires an elaborate system of in-telligence gathering through operatives in sensitive neighborhoods, with the agents working in embedded capacity in the communities and picking and sharing details regarding the narratives being peddled in communities and of suspects potentially vulnerable to becoming lone actors for ISIS. Such an exercise requires special focus on the seminaries. Profiling such individuals with the concomitant exercise of putting their activities under robust monitoring, however significant in terms of resources, is a needed feature to combat and curtail this menace. Here again, the macro dimensions of social and economic well-being facilitates the reduction of numbers potentially contemplating turning against the state for destructive activities. Bibliography Berger, J. M., & Morgan, J. (2015). The ISIS Twitter Census. The Brookings Project on US Relations with the Islamic World. Brookings. Berman, E., & Laitin, D. D. (2008). Religion, terrorism and public goods: Testing the club model. Journal of Public Economics. Center for the Analysis of Terrorism. (2016). ISIS Financing. France: CAT. Clarke, C. P. (2017). The Terrorist Diaspora. Testimony, House Homeland Security Committee Task Force on Denying Terrorists Entry into the United States . Europol. (2017). Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA). Europol. (2018). Terrorism Situation and Trend Report. Europol.
Revista_IEEE_13
To see the actual publication please follow the link above