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Today’s asymmetric threat takes advantage of all possible sources to utilize, manipulate, and broadcast its message. Terrorists recognize the influence the media has, so they frequently use their own media committees to determine how best to manipulate information. From an intelligence perspective, discovering this message is difficult given the overwhelming backdrop of unrelated stories and noise. Complicating this situation are the different types of news media to be considered including text, audio, and video. (continued) Attacking the Network represents the next stage in our fight against the terrorist threat. In this mode, we move away from mitigating the effects of an attack, and instead focus on eliminating them altogether by defeating the core components of the terrorism operation: the key actors and their networks. By moving away from the attack itself and "up the kill chain" we can effectively neutralize the entire operation of a terrorist cell. This has many obvious advantages in the Global War on Terror. (continued) |
