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A Military Concept to Support U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Requirements:

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1. Supporting a friendly, beleaguered host government by conducting military operations against armed terrorist groups and providing training, tactical advice,t and other assistance for conducting protracted counter-insurgency operations against hostile terrorist groups seeking to destabilize the nation.

2. Preventing the rise of Islamist extremist pseudo-governments in a failed state where hostilities are prevalent (for example, the rise of the extremist Taliban /) jK*~T regime during the civil war in Afghanistan). v f \. 3. Eliminating a terrorist safe haven by conducting a military intervention to assure a regime change and then subsequently conducting stability operations on behalf of a fledgling provisional government. AfyW oo~^UJ£ >*<<> ^ "^ 4. Conducting limited ground operations in distant hostile territory to destroy armed terrorist groups, military camps or other protected targets (for example, capturing a key terrorist leader in a protected area, eliminating a central command and control base, destroying a militant training facility, neutralizing a chem/bio production laboratory, seizing CRBN weapons in the hands of terrorists, etc.) U'*\
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Mounting sustained strike operations over a long duration (6-9 months) to destroy terrorist mobile training camps, support centers, and other terrorist targets (for example, mounting a series of recurring stand-off cruise missile attacks and air strikes.) ''^ fr.'Ji cJt / f

6. Tracking down, capturing or killing key terronst leaders and operators who are residing in secure, distant sanctuaries under the protection of a militant state. 7. Disrupting terrorist cells and activities anywhere in the world on a daily basis,

where such terrorists are operating clandestiriel3rin norrnarciilian domains. Focus of Efforts: a. Primarily, but not exclusively, an Islamist threat b. AQ terrorist groups as armed militants and criminals, not official military entities The New Military Concept Needs To: a. Identify revisions in legal authorities and^policies ^' Pursue better concepts and greatly improved military capabilities ^ c. Construct a new joint organization—military, covert action and police operations /• * i, i } d. Embrace intelligence-led operations, with better methods to gain actionable ' intelligence e- Design an appropriate policy decision cycle to conduct rapid operations f- Constitute a new interagency foundation & infrastructure that is coherently joint

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