Yemen, AQAP, and Attribution of Membership: Gregory Johnsen Comments
If you don't already follow Gregory Johnsen's Yemen-focused blog, you should. His most recent post, which talks about the complexities associated with attributing AQAP membership to particular persons in Yemen, is typically informative. I have long been interested in the question of how to reliably attribute or even conceptualize membership in groups like AQAP, and Gregory's post is a pithy ass
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If you don't already follow Gregory Johnsen's Yemen-focused blog, you should. His most recent post, which talks about the complexities associated with attributing AQAP membership to particular persons in Yemen, is typically informative. I have long been interested in the question of how to reliably attribute or even conceptualize membership in groups like AQAP, and Gregory's post is a pithy assessment of certain reasons why this task can be so difficult--as well as some interesting observations about how that difficulty muddies (or at least should muddy) targeting decisions.
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