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Germany has announced that it will strengthen its military to make it the backbone of deterrence and collective defence in Europe. It has issued new defence guidelines for the first time since 2011.
>> you've heard so much and seen so much about isis that it's easy to get anxious. it's trying to scare you and confuse you. with that caveat let me offer a free tentative thoughts about the group. isis is clearly about religion and about its version of radical islam. but it is also about power. there's increasing evidence that the military backbone of isis is made up not by a group of islamic zellists but high ranking officers from saddam hussein's army baathists who are secular. isis presents itself as a global organization but it has thrived because of a local cause. the group has gained te...
Earlier political analysis, that it's a combination of playing with people's minds as well as achieving specific physical effects at bases or check points. so i think you create a climate of fear and inevitability. >> one of the things that many people have argued about isis is that behind this islamist facade or behind this islamist organization is a military backbone that is colonels and generals from saddam's former army. if that's the case, mark, it's going to be much harder to defeat -- to take back these cities because presumably they know these cities. >> they do, and that's what's been...
They're fighting hard, but they're doing things the same way. >> michael, what struck you about this recent phase of isis military strategy? >> hi, fareed. well, i was struck also. the sort of extrapolation of previous tactics of using simultaneity. it was the ten car bombs that were huge that also went off more or less at the same time. of course part of what you're trying to achieve with that is a military effect. but part of it is a psychological effect. and it reinforces i think some of your earlier political analysis, that it's a combination of playing with people's minds as well as achie...
You've heard so much and seen so much about isis, it's easy to get anxious, it's trying to scare you and confuse you. just recently the group took credit for a planned attack in garland, texas. but so far, it appears that two perpetrators were inspired by isis not actually a part of it. with that caveat let me offer a few tentative thoughts about the group. isis is clearly about religion, about its version of radical islam. but it is also about power. there's increasing evidence that the military backbone of isis is made up not by a group of islamic zealots, but high ranking officers from sadd...