Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qa'ida's Organizational Vulnerabilities. Combating Terrorism Center

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       Combating Terrorism Center

      Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qa'ida's Organizational Vulnerabilities

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066452032

      Table of Contents

       Executive Summary

       Foreward

       Introduction

       The Challenges of Organizing Terror

       Introduction

       The Terrorists’ Challenge

       Why Preference Divergence?

       Preference Divergence over Spending

       Preference Divergence Over Tactics

       How Groups Respond to Preference Divergence

       The Difficult Challenge of Balancing Security with Efficiency and Control

       Al-Qa’ida: Back to the Future - The Vanguard and Muslim Brotherhood Operations in Syria

       The History of the Muslim Brotherhood

       The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

       The Lessons of the First Generation: Strategic Failure

       The Third Generation: Applying Syria’s Lessons to Iraq

       Ideological and Religious Indoctrination

       Alliances of Necessity with Untrustworthy Arab Regimes

       Command Structure

       Zarqawi: Building an Ideology of Isolation

       Zarqawi and al-Tali’a: Side by Side Comparison

       Organizational Vulnerabilities and Recommendations to Exploit Them

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       Concluding Remarks