The Articulated Strategy to Fight the Islamic State: Is It Self-Defeating?

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1. Most Islamic terrorist organisations tend to morph into different groups with different names when confronted with the military might of the State and its allies. The IS is likely to go the same way.

2. President Obama’s address to the nation in mid-September 2014, further amplified by White House spokesperson in Press Conference held a few days later.

3. Pentagon Press Release, September 2014.

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Sanu Kainikara

A former fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force (IAF), Sanu Kainikara is Air Power Strategist at the Royal Australian Air Force’s Air Power Development Centre at Canberra.