استراتيجية الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في الحرب على الإرهاب : تنظيم داعش أنموذجا

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Due to the serious threats posed by terrorism, which is not confined to a certain country but extends to several countries, and in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the U.S.

administration has taken a number of measures and procedures to bolster its security strategies.

In this context, many legislative texts have been issued to strengthen the capability of the security authorities to combat terrorism, including the PATRIOT Act that was issued in October 2001, in addition to the formation of alliances and international treaties pertinent to combating terrorism and the means of financing it.

With the rise of the “Islamic State”, also known as Daesh, and in light of the immense human capabilities and strong military and economic potential that it possessed, Daesh was able to dominate vast areas in both Iraq and Syria, which both suffered from the collapse of the state at various levels.

Therefore, confronting this organization by the U.S.

became the main goal for adopting its own strategy to combat terrorism.

Although Former U.S.

President Obama sought during the entire term of his presidency to avoid entering into wars and believed that it was possible to resort to alternative solutions other than the military solution, he faced a difficult conundrum with the emergence of the IS threat, which compelled the use of military force in Iraq another time by entering an international coalition and launching airstrikes on Daesh bases in Syria and providing assistance to the Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting the organization.

When President Donald Trump assumed office, he confirmed that curbing the proliferation of Islamic extremism was one of the most important goals of the U.S.

foreign policy.

Therefore, Trump affirmed his anti-terrorism and anti-Daesh position.

In spite of that, the Trump administration’s strategy to combat terrorism did not introduce new mechanisms to confront terrorist and extremist organizations.

Despite this, there is a change in the way the U.S.

has addressed the issue of terrorism (Daesh), especially under the Obama and Trump administrations - to some extent - compared to the Bush Jr.

administration.

For instance, previously American intervention relied on permanent military presence by establishing military bases and naval fleets, occupation "colonialism" as in the case of Iraq or providing financial assistance to the ruling regimes.

However, in the meantime, the U.S.

has relied on swift and temporary military operations that mostly depend on drones and are called "surgical operations" or "proxy wars" as in the case of Daesh.