English to Portuguese Social Sciences Government / Politics Fight against terrorism

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Franchises and offshoots

The number of terrorist threats identified by Western intelligence agencies as coming from the region has declined, although not by as much as might have been expected. A few years ago more than 75% of the threats originated in South Asia; now the split with the rest of the world is about even. And yet the network has one proven advantage: its protean ability to adapt to circumstance.

Another result of the concerted pressure on al-Qaeda’s core has been its mutation from the hierarchical pyramid organisation it was in 2001 into what Leah Farrall, author of the blog All Things Counter-Terrorism, describes as a “devolved network hierarchy, in which levels of command authority are not always clear, personal ties between militants carry weight and, at times, transcend the command structure between [al-Qaeda’s] core, branch and franchises.” In this model the core leadership is largely relieved of direct operational responsibilities, which devolve to the branches and franchises. Instead, the core exercises command and control only over strategy and ideology.