CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Sam Faddis) - The new counterterrorism strategy – who is going to do the work?
Originally published by AND Magazine
“We face new categories and combinations of violent actors that make the established ways of doing counterterrorism insufficient or obsolete. We face a multiplicity of deadly threats from terror groups and non-state actors, often secretly supported by governments who wish to undermine us. Currently, we face three major types of terror groups: • Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs • Legacy Islamist Terrorists • Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists.” That’s an excerpt from the new United States Counterterrorism Strategy. It is a welcome acknowledgement of the threats we face. They are real. They are immediate. They are growing. The question, of course, is – what are we actually going to do…Open
