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| IS Seeks to Exploit Geopolitical Fracture and Great Power Competition to Strike the West, Russia, and China |
| 2026-01-16 |
| by Lucas Webber [MilitantWire] For over a decade, Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates, such as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), have refined a strategic doctrine that transforms great power rivalry, regional conflicts, and stretched Western security resources into operational advantages. As geopolitical tensions intensify and great power competition accelerates across multiple theaters, U.S.-China strategic rivalry in the Indo-Pacific over Taiwan and trade wars, Russia-West confrontation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Western retrenchment from the Sahel enabling Russian influence expansion, and regional power struggles involving Iran, Israel, and Gulf states, IS has positioned its jihadist operations within these fault lines to maximum effect. The rest behind a paywall Related: Strategic doctrine 07/24/2025 US Nukes Allegedly Return to Lakenheath after their departure in 2008 Strategic doctrine 05/09/2025 Discussion on Pakistan in 2015 that still applies Strategic doctrine 10/14/2019 The Age of Mutual Assured Cancellation |
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