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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is required reading for everyone participating in this thread.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/[/quote]

That article is out of date.  It may have been accurate earlier this year, but not any longer.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/isis-caliphate-setbacks-islamic-state-attacks-paris-tripoli

[quote]“Although Isis is no longer the same as it was in 2014, they still are capable of recovering if pressure is lifted on them,” said Barzani. “They pose threats to us and the rest of the world. They still control vast areas, rule over millions of people and are expanding in other parts of the world like north Africa. Isis may have lost conventional fighting capabilities, but they are adapting themselves to new tactics and forms of terrorism, such as what happened in France.”

In being able to organise an attack of the scale that took place in Paris, within 10 days of apparently bringing down a airliner in Egypt, and carrying out bombings in Tripoli, Baghdad and Beirut, Isis has shown an international potency that it did not have a year ago. In 2014, sympathisers and cells of the group existed in all these locations, but without the capacity or reach that they have shown lately.

Isis members travel relatively easily to Turkey and several of its senior officials have boasted that the migrant route offers opportunities to move fighters to Europe and beyond.

“I truly did not think that they could do this yet,” one member of Isis with links to the group’s decision-makers said on Sunday. “I thought they would have to make deals with the international al-Qaida groups. Earlier this year, they could not do this by themselves.”[/quote]

http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-wanted-to-strike-beyond-its-caliphate-long-before-the-paris-attacks-2015-11

[quote]But the attacks' severity shouldn't distract from how little of a deviation they represent from the group's past behavior.

ISIS has never been exclusively focused on building its so-called caliphate, an Islamic state presided over by a religious leader.

It was also focused on waging external attacks long before the events in Paris last week.

...

ISIS hasn't had a "change in strategy." It's been consistent in its actions and messaging, which has explicitly emphasized attacks on Western targets since at least September 2014.

"Their strategy hasn't shifted," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider. "Instead, it's their capabilities that have shifted ... They're focused on attacking, everywhere."[/quote][/quote]

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