What is the military goal of terrorism?
What are terrorists trying to achieve?
Be the biggest cunts on the block until everyone gets sick of their cuntiness and fucks their cunt back into oblivion until the next cunt comes along and rinse and repeat.
>>27917899
>What are terrorists trying to achieve?
Terror.
>>27917899
Daesh was pretty clear anon
-Punish the infidel, kill them or convert them to islam. They have been doing this during centuries because is a divine mission
-Kill different kind of muslims because "they are wrong". isis hate Shiites. They execute them on a daily basis
-Recover territories, like Al andalus (south spain, was a caliphate during centuries until the spaniard christians BTFO them)
-And their liders, divine missions aside,of course, want money and power.
>>27917940
yeah, but terrorism doesn't achieve those goals.
You can't beat an enemy country killing 120 civilians at a time
>>27917899
In the case of ISIS:
>create fear and hate of muslims in the general population
>this causes segregation, muslims have to live in their own communities or ghettos
>ISIS can then easier recruit new members from these communities
>>27917947
>yeah, but terrorism doesn't achieve those goals.
you say that like they're logical.
>>27917958
This is surely a side effect they like, but isn't their main goal to provoke western countries into putting boots on the ground?
>>27917947
No but widespread diaspora of radicalized shitskins loyal to the cause can do that.
They aren't in this for the short term
>>27917960
You think they act irrational?
>>27917962
Yes, this will divide the population even more, since declaring a real war on ISIS forces people to take sides. They want it to be islam vs. everybody else, which is really bad for actual muslims.
>>27917899
It's about radicalisation anon. the terror is going to increase the level of a civilisation conflict that is already there. If the are good enough, in their plans, sooner or later this will escalate into a very big war, and all the sunni muslims (the vast majority) will be forced to pick a team. hint: they will not pick western team
>>27917899
>What is the military goal of terrorism?
Inflict damage on soft targets such as civilians while conserving force in order to maintain power.
>What are terrorists trying to achieve?
The leaders of it are like every other leader, they are out to gain more money and power. In this case by presenting themselves as the strong leader of some ideology/religion/whatever. Hit some mosque of the other faction, subway or whatever to show that you are strong and active and use that to recruit followers and gain financial backers. Look at the IRA for a prime example of this, thet did bombing campaigns whenever the money flow started slowing down.
The guys on the ground are simply cannon fodder who have been convinced to die for the cause.
>>27917967
Different anon. They want to kick start fascism in the west, which would drive many Muslims towards them.
Also they believe in a prophecy that after a battle against 'rome' in the middle east the will usher in the apocalypse and bring heaven to earth. They want to draw the west into the middle east so they can bring about this battle.
Also bear in mind that many jihadis think they were responsible for the death of the USSR through the Afghan war, the want to do the same to the west so need to draw them in. This opinion is a little more pragmatic than the first.
They are a death cult who wish to achieve martyrdom by killing the western infidels and a little bit of domestic genocide of 'bad' Muslims. Even al-quadi has disowned them for being too extreame. The only way to get rid of them is cut of there supplies (rich princes from western allied kingdoms), cut the off from sympathetic populations (through the massive deployment of land forces), promoting the ideas of more moderate imams and killing every member.
This can't be done with airpower as there is too much chance of killing civilians and creating lots of angry new members
>>27917922
fucking this
>>27917899
freedom
>>27917899
Killing infidels. These people have the mentality of middle ages Europeans. They have shit, our king says fuck them, lets go rape their women and kill their goats... or in this case the other way around.
Barbarism still exists in some societies, we've only been civilized for a short period of time. The blink of an eye on a historical timeline really. Some humans haven't become civilized yet and just think like dumb violent animals. Radical islamists however aren't the dumbest of the dumb, way back when they were civilized they were quite crafty, so they're on a higher level than say niggers for example. Their attacks on civilized society are far more well planned but it stems from the same "keepin it real" retaliation/jealousy mentality.
>>27917947
You can beat an enemy country by replacing their population with yours
>>27917899
>Type whole post
>Read through the thread
>Someone else has already said most of it
Well fuck you too surprisingly-well-read /k/, I'm posting it anyway.
Tony Abbot's characterization of ISIS as a "Death Cult" was widely mocked for his insistence on using the term when no one else seemed to pick up on it, but as shit of a prime minister as he may have been the man was originally slated to become a catholic priest, and he certainly knew his theology and religious history in general.
ISIS's theology is essentially a millenarian apocalyptic cult. If you want a Christian analogue, think people like Jim Jones, Thomas Muntzer or perhaps the Taiping heavenly kingdom. They literally believe that the Apocalypse is coming soon, and one of the prophesied events in the Islamic apocalypse (which although differing in detail, broadly resembles the one of the in the book of revelations) is a battle between the forces of the Caliphate and "Rome" at Dabiq, in Syria. "Rome" was probably originally meant literally but currently they talk about a metaphorical Rome that is taken by ISIS to mean the "Crusader armies" (Basically the western powers).
So from a theological standpoint they want to goad the western powers into ushering in the end times and the kingdom of God.
From a more real-politic viewpoint, fighting Non-Muslim armies gives them a greater legitimacy than fighting other Muslims, like they are currently.
This is very different to other extremist groups like Al-queda, Al Quaeda are primarily a political movement, with well-defined political goals they seek to accomplish (US out of the middle east, no Non-Muslims in Saudi, end of support for Israel, ect, ect). ISIS literally want to conquer the world.
>>27918015
Funny how many posters here play into the IS game-plan
>>27918356
it's not IS game-plan, it's basic knowledge of the historical function of the terrorism. there could be specific elements in IS related terrorism, but the bottom line is always the same: radicalisation.
