Notes from the Defeating Jihad book

The Seven Swords of Jihad:

1. empire building;
2. the suppression of apostate subjects;
3. the revolution against “false” Muslim leaders;
4. the anti-colonial struggle and “purification” of the religion;
5. countering Western influence and jahiliyya;[1]
6. guerrilla warfare against secular invaders; and finally
7. the direct targeting of civilians in terrorist attacks.

4 Reasons why ISIS is more dangerous than Al Qaeda:

1. It is its own self-generated, fully fledged, trans-national insurgency. Al Qaeda, in all the theaters where it existed in the last 14 years, was a parasitic terrorist organization that attached itself to indigenous insurgencies, whether it was Al-Shabaab in Somalia or whether it was the Taliban in Afghanistan, it did not generate its own mass base of mobilization as a true Maoist insurgency should, or one that follows Mao’s rule-book for mobilization. ISIS is different.
2. It is completely open source, it is the richest threat group of its type in human history.
3. As CG Cleveland has used the adjective, staggering, and I completely agree, the recruiting capacity of ISIS is mind boggling. You just heard in our presentation that we have figures that in historic perspective we have never seen before. Nineteen thousand foreign fighters in nine months.
4. Unfortunately, it has no peer competitor.

Three momentous events mark 1979 as the year in which modern jihad, having evolved over the course of the century, emerged as a global movement: the establishment of a theocratic regime in Iran, the siege of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. While the conditions for an Islamist explosion had existed for a long time, these events were the spark.

Three part strategy to beat the jihadists:

1. We have to get politics, and particularly political correctness, out of the threat assessment. We have to talk truthfully about our enemy, exactly the same way we did during World War II, when facing the Nazis, and during the Cold War, when President Reagan rightfully called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.”
2. We have to empower our Muslim allies in the Middle East who are most at threat from groups such as ISIS, and which, in the final analysis, have to be the face of a victory against Islamist extremism and terrorism. This includes the Jordanians and especially the government of President Fatah al-Sisi, a brave Muslim who has been rejected by this administration.
3. Finally, this war will not be won by killing jihadis in large numbers. The use of force is only a part of the solution. Ultimately we will win when the ideology of global jihadism is no longer attractive to young men and women from Orlando to Brussels, from Paris to San Bernardino. That can only be done through a strategic-level counter-propaganda campaign driven by the White House, in exactly the same way that we did during the Cold War.

For political leaders:

1. The politically motivated censorship of analysis, training and education must end. The White House must scrap the rules of what can and cannot be used by analysts, war fighters and FBI agents about the jihadist threat.
2. Washington must resist the continuous lobbying and subversive tactics such groups as CAIR and Muslim Public Affairs Council. These groups use the same tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.
3. A complete reappraisal of US policy toward theocratic regime in Iran. Unless Iranian mullahs stops saying “death to America” and conditions for Iranians improve, sanctions should increase and the regime should be isolated.

Concrete measures to defeat ISIS and Al Queda:

1. Reinstate and expand the federal human intelligence counter-terrorism methods pioneered by the New York police department after 9/11.
2. Build a curriculum on the enemy threat doctrine of global jihadism that all local, state and federal law enforcement officers and analysts must be trained in. And fund such training through the DHS. Do the same for the joint military education system used across the defense department with short courses for all ranks and grades and long courses at academies and war colleges.
3. The department of defense and the intelligence community must hire subject matter experts on Islam and jihadist ideology to inform threat analyse and advise theater commanders including theater special operation commands.
4. The policy elite and the defense department should once and for all reject counter insurgency operations as an option to defeat jihadism.
5. Return our special forces to their original missions of direct action. Targeted killing of enemy leaders and foreign internal defense. Embed our soldiers and marines in the national units of Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and the UAE. Right down to the brigade level or lower so as to provide the central core around which an international force can move out to destroy ISIS and the like with the front-line fighters being our Sunni allies; not Amercan service men.
6. Initiate a stragic counter messaging campaign from the White House itself, modeled on the active measure working group of the Cold War. Use this new interagency publicly by identifying jihadi propaganda and the extent of the lies from the groups like ISIS starting with their professing to be fighting for Islam against the infidel while killing more Muslims that anyother target group.
7. Provide large scale technical and financial support to our partners best suited to continue this campaign in theater especially the Jordian and Egyptian governments.
8. Iniate a covert psychological warfare campaign to support Muslim reformers across the Middle East, Asia and North Africa in their ideological war to delegitimize the message of holy war against the infidel and bolster modern interpretations of Islam.

Source: Defeating Jihad. The Winnable War (2016) by Dr. Sebastian Gorka.

Good detailed ideas in this book. Hillary probably won’t implement these ideas because she will just continue Obama’s stupid program.

Dr. Gorka says the Soviet Union is in many ways similar to the Islamic State and other Islamic terrorist organizations. Both have an extreme oppressive idealogy in that they want to spread over the world because they feel that’s what the world needs for its own good. Both force people to join them. Communism has its true believers just like the Jihadists do. The only difference is Communism is athestic while Jihadism is Islamic. So, to defeat Jihadism you have to defeat it like America defeated Communism in the old Soviet Union.