A Military Concept to Support U.S.

Counterterrorism Policy

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1. Supporting a friendly, beleaguered host government by conducting military

operations against armed terrorist groups and providing training, tactical advice,t
and other assistance for conducting protracted counter-insurgency operations
against hostile terrorist groups seeking to destabilize the nation.

2. Preventing the rise of Islamist extremist pseudo-governments in a failed state

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v f \. regime during the civil war in Afghanistan).

3. Eliminating a terrorist safe haven by conducting a military intervention to assure a

regime change and then subsequently conducting stability operations on behalf of
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4. Conducting limited ground operations in distant hostile territory to destroy armed

terrorist groups, military camps or other protected targets (for example, capturing
a key terrorist leader in a protected area, eliminating a central command and
control base, destroying a militant training facility, neutralizing a chem/bio
production laboratory, seizing CRBN weapons in the hands of terrorists, etc.)
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Mounting sustained strike operations over a long duration (6-9 months) to destroy
/\X—• terrorist mobile training camps, support centers, and other terrorist targets (for
L>^ example, mounting a series of recurring stand-off cruise missile attacks and air
strikes.)
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6. Tracking down, capturing or killing key terronst leaders and operators who are
residing in secure, distant sanctuaries under the protection of a militant state.

7. Disrupting terrorist cells and activities anywhere in the world on a daily basis,
where such terrorists are operating clandestiriel3rin norrnarciilian domains.

Focus of Efforts:
a. Primarily, but not exclusively, an Islamist threat
b. AQ terrorist groups as armed militants and criminals, not official military entities

The New Military Concept Needs To:

a. Identify revisions in legal authorities and^policies
^ ^' Pursue better concepts and greatly improved military capabilities ~
* i, i } c. Construct a new joint organization—military, covert action and police operations /• •***
d. Embrace intelligence-led operations, with better methods to gain actionable ' v
intelligence
e- Design an appropriate policy decision cycle to conduct rapid operations
f- Constitute a new interagency foundation & infrastructure that is coherently joint