To take a village, insurgents apply a simple framework. By co-opting or killing the three nodes of leadership – security, political and religious – they begin controlling the minds of the population. After witnessing the BBC, ABC Q&A guests, The Project, and even Yarra City Council, excusing terrorism in the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, this is no longer an abstract theory.
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Jason Thomas teaches risk management at Swinburne University of Technology and is director of Frontier Assessments.
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