The year long campaign sustained against terror entities has several vital ingredients that need study. The War on Terror has been essentially predicated on the platform of Intelligence as the mode of sustaining military operations that have ranged from air assaults, sustained aerial bombardment, to Special Forces operation.

The application of military power in asymmetric conflicts has been sustained and focused; yet terror entities have regrouped and morphed in varying combinations, networked in combinations that prove their sustained virulence. In focusing on the asymmetric capabilities of States versus terror groups one can infer the following characteristics: States have preferred hierarchical formal organisations and capabilities that rely on systematic orchestration of resources and capabilities; terror groups have preferred horizontal, informal networked organisations relying on stealthy imagery to sustain their assaults on States.

States have always preferred concentrated institutional authority; terror entities prefer symbolic leadership patterns and diffused operating styles. States confronting terror groups rely on a proactive and offensive mode of Intelligence that provides a real time profile to sustain operations; terror groups have primarily defensive capabilities in intelligence operations.

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