The federally funded Rand research center - who advises the Pentagon -
just released it's findings on a terrorism study:
* Military force by the United States or other countries should be
reserved for quelling large, well-armed and well-organized
insurgencies
* "Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy
warriors, and our analysis suggests there is no battlefield solution
to terrorism"
* American officials should stop using the term "war on terror" and
replace it with "counterterrorism"; most allies, including Britain and
Australia, have stopped using "war on terror" to describe strategy
against the group headed by Osama bin Laden
* Based on an analysis of 648 terrorist groups that existed between
1968 and 2006:
- A transition to the political process is the most common way
such groups end (43%)
- The second most common way that terrorist groups end is through
police and intelligence services apprehending or killing key leaders
(40%)
- Military force was effective in only 7 percent of the cases
* A political process end is unlikely with al-Qaida due to its broad
agenda: "Even where we found some success against al-Qaida, in
Pakistan and Iraq, the military played a background or surrogate role.
The bulk of the action was taken by intelligence, police and, in some
cases, local forces."
* "The United States has the necessary instruments to defeat al-Qaida,
it just needs to shift its strategy" (HINT: invading Iraq is the
WRONG strategy against AQ. Wait ... we have a strategy now??)
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