5: ISIS Challenges

Question 1

Challenge 1:

Answer 1

ISIS wealth

Question 2

ISIS makes:

Answer 2

$40 a barrel of oil on the black market, and oil sales are estimated to exceed $500 million a year

Question 3

IEP:

Answer 3

“ISIS is effectively acting as a state”

Question 4

Challenge 2:

Answer 4

Foreign Fighters

Question 5

ISIS has attracted:

Answer 5

May 2015 - 22,000 foreign fighters

Question 6

Jake Bilardi:

Answer 6

2015 - 18 year old in Australia, became a suicide bomber

Question 7

Challenge 3:

Answer 7

Asymmetrical Warfare

Question 8

Asymmetrical warfare:

Answer 8

Unconventional warfare between two actors who are different in military power.

Question 9

Terrorism has:

Answer 9

Claimed the lives of 32,658 people in 2014, an 80% increase on 2013

Question 10

The total economic cost of asymmetrical warfare:

Answer 10

$52.9 billion in 2014

Question 11

Andrew Kelly:

Answer 11

ISIS is “at the heart of a new kind of asymmetrical warfare”

Question 12

Overall (Asymmetrical Warfare):

Answer 12

The continuation of IS terrorist acts abroad suggest the main challenge to combating the group remains their ideology itself.