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3. Operation-Based Jihadi Organizations

Author : Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

Published in: The Strategic Logic of Women in Jihadi Organizations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Operation-based jihadi organizations are those commonly known as Islamist terrorist groups. The main political agenda of these groups is to expel Western powers from Muslim lands and to fight secular local governments. The view of these groups on what to do next after seizing power in a country is mostly vague. Since these organizations do not hold identified territories and are involved in guerrilla warfare, their internal structure is based on clandestine cellular networks. In such networks, the organization is divided into several cells and a few members are assigned to each. Countering growing surveillance by official authorities, and prolonging the survivability of the organization are the main reasons behind an operation-based jihadi organization for tactically adopting a clandestine cellular network structure. The strategic logic of women in these organizations is therefore shaped to support this structure. To sustain the covert function and operation of the clandestine structure, women are incorporated as tactical agents.

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Footnotes
1
Salafis are fundamentalists who believe in a return to the original ways of Islam. The word “Salafi” comes from the Arabic phrase, “as-salaf as-saliheen”, which refers to the first three generations of Muslims (starting with the Companions of the Prophet), otherwise known as the Pious Predecessors.
 
2
Unless a Muslim shares the jihadi groups’ views, they are not a Muslim. They are, in jihadists’ eyes, an apostate, for which the punishment is death.
 
3
A person who acts on his or her own without orders from—or even connections to—an organization.
 
4
Asymmetrical warfare is unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of belligerent powers are not simply unequal but are so significantly different that they cannot make the same sorts of attacks on each other.
 
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Metadata
Title
Operation-Based Jihadi Organizations
Author
Hamoon Khelghat-Doost
Copyright Year
2021
Book
The Strategic Logic of Women in Jihadi Organizations

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-59387-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-59388-9

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59388-9_3

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