Krigens skriftende karakter - al-Qaidas strategier for krig gennem 20 år

Abstract

The article shows how Al-Qaeda has continuously transformed its visions and strategies toward war throughout the organization’s history. By reading al-Qaeda’s own ideological texts the author argues that al-Qaeda has several times adapted its strategies to the course of the events by changing who al-Qaida was fighting, where the fighting could take place and especially what audiences the organization was addressing. The article furthermore argues – with reference to Michel Wieviorkas inversion theory – that al-Qaida’s war today is so far away from fighting the “near enemy” in the Middle East, that the organization has inverted and marginalized itself away from the original audiences in the Middle East and that al-Qaeda will therefore find it difficult to mobilize in the aftermath of The Arab Spring.