Publication

This paper analyzes Al-Qaeda’s core strategy of distracting and exhausting adversaries, creating divisions between counter-terrorism allies, assisting local affiliates, planning international attacks, and monitoring Western security and defense systems. The examination suggests that the Al-Qaeda’s command structure is capable of adapting to even the most considerable countermeasures directed against it and that it might assume new and different organizational forms, as ongoing unrest in the Middle East provide it with new relevance.