By Nicole Gaouette and Anthony Capaccio
November 30, 2015
...“The goal is to start a chain reaction of intelligence-driven raids that increase in frequency and expand in scope over time,” said Robert Martinage, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for special operations under Obama. “The metric becomes can you disrupt and dismantle the network faster than the enemy can repair and regenerate it?”
...The raids would have to be paired with the longer-term efforts the administration has been pursuing, said Martinage, who’s now an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Noting that Islamic State was born from the ashes of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the former Navy official said any strategy would have to include the creation of effective local security forces, efforts to cut off the group’s funding and ways to discredit it among prospective recruits and local populations.
“A determined adversary can and will regenerate once the pressure is removed,” Martinage said.
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