Posted on 06/18/2016 3:00:06 PM PDT by Lorianne
ISIL, however, is a formidable, resilient, and largely cohesive enemy, and we anticipate that the group will adjust its strategy and tactics in an effort to regain momentum.
In the coming months, we can expect ISIL to probe the front lines of its adversaries for weaknesses, to harass the forces that are holding the cities it previously controlled, and to conduct terror attacks against its enemies in Iraq and Syria.
To compensate for territorial losses, ISIL will probably rely more on guerrilla tactics, including high-profile attacks outside territory it holds. A steady stream of attacks in Baghdad and Damascus demonstrates the group’s ability to penetrate deep inside enemy strongholds.
Beyond its losses on the battlefield, ISIL’s finances are taking a hit as well. Coalition efforts have reduced the group’s ability to generate revenue and have forced it to cut costs and to reallocate funds.
Yet ISIL is adapting to the Coalition’s efforts, and it continues to generate at least tens of millions of dollars in revenue per month, primarily from taxation and from crude oil sales.
Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group’s terrorism capability and global reach. The resources needed for terrorism are very modest, and the group would have to suffer even heavier losses of territory, manpower, and money for its terrorist capacity to decline significantly.
Moreover, the group’s foreign branches and global networks can help preserve its capacity for terrorism regardless of events in Iraq and Syria. In fact, as the pressure mounts on ISIL, we judge that it will intensify its global terror campaign to maintain its dominance of the global terrorism agenda.
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Thank you, you’re fired.
Senate Intelligence is an oxymoron.
If experience from the war with the communists is any guide, they’ll just all become college professors, and run for office, and then capture the White House.
It worked for the Marxists, and it worked for Muslim Brotherhood. We have a muslim communist in the White House and a muslim CIA director. ISIS in the White House isn’t much of a stretch. MSNBC won’t even notice the change.
the JV team seems to be a bigger threat now....
Our CIA director is a Muslim convert. Google it.
He is a muslim and his boss is sending them 50 million of your dollars through Libya
That just about sums it up...let’s all just collectively bend over and take it like the sheep of the world.../s
Weather channel says it’s supposed to be 120 degrees in Phoenix tomorrow. Their record high is 122.
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