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[Question] Are there any examples of successful military counter terrorism? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/narrow

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A pattern I've seen in countries dealing with terrorism is that they try and kill or arrest all members of a terrorist organization. I'm trying to find an example where terrorist cells were destroyed by military force and I can't find any- it seems the most successful endings are through diplomacy and humanitarian relief to the communities that are vulnerable to radicalization.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Actually you pinged on a good point - really it could come down to what the "counter terror" side defines as victory. One example that comes to me is the US in Afghanistan- we really didn't have a solid definition for victory other than a vague "destroy al-Qaeda" so we ended up there for 20 years and every bomb we dropped just radicalized more people.

For transparency, I wrote this question thinking about the Palestine Israel conflict. Israel's stated objective is to completely destroy Hamas, but that feels oddly familiar

As far as the Nagorno-Karabakh, I'm not familiar with that conflict, but I did a little peak and the news is saying it's back up. :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

for Nagorno-Karabakh, and its comparison with Palestine, this was an interesting podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/podcasts/the-daily/armenia-nagorno-karabakh.html