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ISIS Splinter Group Essay

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First and foremost, we see goal variance with ISIS being a splinter group off of Al-Qaeda with ISIS’s goal to create an Islamic caliphate in Iraq, Syria, and a few other countries. As ISIS becomes stronger it has created an almost gravitational pull. It has attracted many other paramilitary and terrorist organizations. These smaller groups are fragments from larger militias of mostly Islamic origin. The most notable is a fragmented group from the Taliban who do not always get along with the extreme ideologies of the ISIS leaders. “Gen. Martin Dempsey was asked to comment on ISIS in Afghanistan during a hearing held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “The TTP is notably that splinter group of the Taliban who has rebranded themselves to the ISIL ideology,””(Mora 2015). Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is known to operate in the Hindu Kush, the mountain range separating Pakistan and Afghanistan. This shows that goal variance does not always hurt militias, as it is also a way to increase numbers by recruiting or absorbing another paramilitary or even a terrorist group. The use of narcotics as a way to keep soldiers is also a way to keep fragmentation from occurring, as many recruits from the west are not as committed to the cause but once hooked on narcotics they choose to stay instead of deserting or defecting. The treat of execution also keeps soldiers from deserting or defecting. …show more content…

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