ELEMENTS OF HYBRID WARFARE IN THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND LEVANT OPERATIONS
ELEMENTS OF HYBRID WARFARE IN THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND LEVANT OPERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has risen to prominence as a danger to peace and a regional threat with global impact. This perception comes, in large measure, from its successes in Syria followed by the rapid takeover of Northern Iraq. Its military victories are largely due to successful recruiting, intra-insurgent conflict, large cash reserves, as well as ineffective opponents. As US President Barack Obama warned in September last year, ISIL represented a new type of challenge, a “sort of a hybrid of not just the terrorist network, but one with territorial ambitions, and some of the strategy and tactics of an army”. Transnational aspirations, blended tactics, structured formations, propaganda and information warfare, and cruel use of terror as part of their arsenal reveal the hybrid nature of ISIL threat.

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