The Structure And Structure Of Terrorist Organizations

According to merriam-webster dictionary, structure means the way that something is built, arranged, or organized. Structure is needed in all things. There is even structure to terrorist organizations. Their organization have changed throughout the years though. Terrorist were historically organized “along the lines of the predominant hierarchical model” (2009, pg. 160). There was generally one or a few leaders followed by lieutenants and then lower level operates. Old terrorists groups followed sort of a militaristic structure being that information flowed from the top and then was carried out by the low level operates. In recent years, terrorist organization use the what Nacos (2009) calls “leaderless resistance” first used by the Communist …show more content…
Any possible information flows up and down the hierarchy in a fashion that has been established. But it is hard for information to move to the left and right.There are many pros and cons to the hierarchy system which hinders or helps the organization it is set in place with. Some pros to this type of structure is the clear means of communication and how authority and reporting is carried out. Communication from higher to lower is maintained by having the leader talk to the next groupe being the people who carry out the operations all the way down to the people who are indirectly involved. Strategies are set in place this way making it easier because you only have to communicate with a certain number and the same of people every time. Repetition forms understanding. Not only is do you understand but reporting is made easier. The higher you aim to be on the hierarchy chart, the more responsibility one is tasked with. This is also easy to understand because it is clear who is in charge.With all these responsibilities and duties come …show more content…
First you must, define terrorists. Next you must, locate terrorist and their organizations. Lastly, destroy terrorists and their organization. Once a terrorist, terrorist group, or terrorist organization is found the United States must react quickly and efficiently. they must use every means available to disturb, annihilate, and end these acts of terror. The ultimate goal is defeat. We must come up with a defense strategy to hurt these organizations. “Our [enemy] is proactive, innovative, well-networked, flexible, patient, young, technologically savvy, and learns and adapts continuously based upon both successful and failed operations around the globe(Philpott, 2007, pg 3-1).” To combat this proactive knowledge and situational awareness of your enemy and their surrounding help us to minimize their effects and safely conduct our mission. Their leadership and command must be severely disrupted but take with caution. Then other factors are to be looked at. some of the factors are their breeding grounds, communications, materials, and where they get their money from. We must not only try and defeat our local terrorist but our international terrorist and their networks as well. This is the way we must combat terrorism as a