Outline the six operational tools. Conclude each tool with a potential counterterrorism action that could be taken to reduce the success of that tool

Question

What will be an ideal response

Answer 1

1 . Command and control system is the mechanism in a terrorist movement that plans, staffs, trains, coordinates, and executes the attacks. It is referred to as C or C2 . The sophistication level is based on the stage of development and the size of the terrorist organization. Intelligence gathering can be used to reduce the effectiveness and reduce attacks, but answers can vary. 2 . Acquiring weapons and spare parts for weapons is essential and an organization's supply is usually a mixture of those supplied by individual or state sponsors, purchased on the black market, or captured . The arms inventory is a crude indicator of their size, intentions, and capabilities. Protection of military caches of arms as a means of preventing them from being captured is one answer that could be provided as a counterterrorism action.3 . Operational space is a physical safe haven where attacks can be planned, trained for, and rehearsed with a measure of security. There are land safe havens, urban safe havens, maritime safe havens, and virtual safe havens. Destruction of safe havens or sanctions against governments who allow safe havens is a counterterrorism action for this operational tool. 4 . Training recruits begins with an initial phase of indoctrination, physical conditions, small arms familiarization, marksmanship, and basic martial arts. It can include more advanced topics like building and planting bombs, hostage taking, and assaulting military convoys. Shutting down training websites is a response to reduce terrorist training. 5 . Intelligence and counterintelligence is an essential operational tool only if the data is processed, integrated, analyzed, evaluated, and interpreted on a specific subject and delivered with conclusions. Counterintelligence is the means to disrupt the intelligence of terrorist groups. 6 . Finance is vital to a terrorist organization's success and longevity. Due to stricter banking regulations, terrorist organizations have taken to profiting from the drug trade, committing crimes like kidnapping, setting up fake charities, and use of hawala . Continued increase of banking regulations and tracing and interrupting the use of hawala is one means of reducing a terrorist's ability to gain finances. Answers will vary in regard to counterterrorism actions that could be done to reduce the various organizational tools.