Robert Lalani
The start of the nuclear age has
brought an end to most massive scale conflicts. Enemy combatants no longer wear
uniforms to identify their allegiances and instead use a guerrilla warfare
tactics. This is due to the fact that the United States and other western
powers are far more technologically advanced to those of less stabilized
countries where terrorism is more likely to take place. The causes of war have
shifted from one of nations and territory to one of ideological differences.
Al-Qaeda and other terrorist cells operate around the world and across
boarders. In order to combat this tactics have shifted. Information has always
been valuable in warfare however as the world enters the “age of terrorism” it has
become doubly so.
In Zero Dark Thirty the main objective of the United States was to
find and eliminate the leadership of Al-Qaeda.
Without fundamental support structure, extremist would have a hard time
operating. Any organization needs resources and leadership and without a command
structure this would be almost impossible. However, even if the United States
dismantled Al-Qaeda would this bring an end to terrorism? I don’t think so; in
the lapse of Al-Qaeda other terrorist originations took their
place. In order to fundamentally solve this crisis there needs to be a systematic
change in the environment that breeds it.
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