| ID | 156543 |
| Title Proper | Kinetic responses to global terrorism |
| Other Title Information | lessons from Africa |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Malan, Mark |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This essay recalls the immediate and longer-term responses of the US and its allies to the events of 9/11. It contends that the die for contemporary developments in transnational terrorism was cast in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 – in particular the launching of sustained ‘anti-terrorist’ military combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and more covert ‘kinetic’ operations elsewhere in the Middle East and Africa. The essay seeks specifically to expose the counter-productivity of using military operations as the primary antidote to transnational terrorism. Focusing on the African ‘laboratory’ and the spread of transnational terrorism and Islamic militancy, particularly in West and East Africa, the essay concludes that radical Islamists have mastered the ‘battle of the narrative’ and that the Western penchant for dispensing a kinetic brand of medication is feeding rather than fighting the virus of global terrorism. |
| `In' analytical Note | African Security Review Vol. 26, No.4; Nov 2017: p.341-361 |
| Journal Source | African Security Review Vol: 26 No 4 |
| Key Words | Terrorism ; Military Operations ; Africa ; 9/11 ; Militants ; Kinetic |