A pattern I’ve seen in countries dealing with terrorism is that they try and kill or arrest all members of a terrorist organization. I’m trying to find an example where terrorist cells were destroyed by military force and I can’t find any- it seems the most successful endings are through diplomacy and humanitarian relief to the communities that are vulnerable to radicalization.

  • meep_launcher@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Actually you pinged on a good point - really it could come down to what the “counter terror” side defines as victory. One example that comes to me is the US in Afghanistan- we really didn’t have a solid definition for victory other than a vague “destroy al-Qaeda” so we ended up there for 20 years and every bomb we dropped just radicalized more people.

    For transparency, I wrote this question thinking about the Palestine Israel conflict. Israel’s stated objective is to completely destroy Hamas, but that feels oddly familiar

    As far as the Nagorno-Karabakh, I’m not familiar with that conflict, but I did a little peak and the news is saying it’s back up. :/