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Vol. 5 nr. 11 | 2012 – Absenţa viziunii strategice şi provocările pentru analiza de intelligence. Cazul home grown terrorists

Vol. 5 nr. 11 | 2012 –  Absenţa viziunii strategice şi provocările pentru analiza de intelligence. Cazul home grown terrorists

The absence of the strategic vision guiding the activities in intelligence gathering and analysis can lead to failures due to the short term and immediate operational or tactical solution envisaged in one issue or another. Without an integrative strategic vision, a Grand Strategy following long term goals and developing trans-partisan policies in Foreign policy, security and defense of one country, this could lead to blockages and failures that do not belong to bad evaluation but to the context and integrative force that a consistent strategy is offering.

The case of home grown terrorist is such a case. On one hand there is the need to intervene in difficult cases of the “enemy inside the gates” paradigm, on the other this type of intervention creates moral problems and is in a situation where, there is a possibility that this intervention could lead to the opposite outcome, meaning to qualify terrorists and to let them at large, instead of blocking the tendencies of some targeted lone wolf self radicalized Islamists moving towards terrorist action to make the move.

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