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Defeating the Jihadists in Syra

其他書名	Competition Before Confrontation
出版	Atlantic Council, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, 2015
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QtnmsgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The current US-led coalition campaign in Syria cannot destroy ISIS without effective, legitimate Syrian ground forces. The campaign, which targets jihadists, ignores the regime, and marginalizes potential local partners, constrains but does not existentially threaten ISIS. Meanwhile, it is inadvertently radicalizing Syrians and empowering the Nusra Front. Even as the US-led air strikes kill ISIS fighters and weaken the group's economic infrastructure, on its current path the campaign's most likely outcomes are an entrenched ISIS and a strengthened Nusra Front. An effective counter-jihadist strategy in Syria must instead center on working with capable local partners to both destroy and replace ISIS and the Nusra Front. A locally driven approach to fighting the jihadists would also have positive implications for the broader Syrian conflict, and its radicalizing effects. By helping establish legitimate, capable opposition forces in Syria, the United States would also fulfill a key requirement for any political settlement to the Syrian conflict that gave rise to the jihadists: the existence of strong local partners able to fight and negotiate on behalf of Syria's opposition.