Summary
In the first three months of this year, Trump said or tweeted 16 times that Daesh was either completely defeated or soon would be.
The Daesh resurgence is partly the result of Trump's December 2018 decisions to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria and halve the number in Afghanistan, which prompted Secretary of Defense James Mattis to resign and made America's regional security partners less able to conduct counterterrorism operations.
With that in mind, U.S. Cyber Command will be transformed into an information warfare operations command by 2028, with the goal of integrating cyber, electronic warfare, and information operations.
Other countries fighting Daesh must ensure that they have similar capabilities and can collaborate with allies both diplomatically and militarily.
On the other hand, the significant decline in U.S. media coverage of Daesh over the past few years strengthens the public perception that it is no longer a threat.
Daesh's recent media resurgence is thus the precursor to the group's physical revival. That is why the information war against Daesh should never stop.
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