This Is Your Brain on Terrorism - Foreign Affairs Magazine

The Science Behind a Death Wish

By Scott Atran December 2, 2019

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In September 2014, when the Islamic State (ISIS) was at the height of its power, Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged that the United States had underestimated the terrorist group’s will to fight. “We underestimated the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese and overestimated the will of the South Vietnamese,” he told The Washington Post. “In this case, we underestimated ISI[S] and overestimated the fighting capability of the Iraqi army … It boils down to predicting the will to fight, which is an imponderable.” Scholars and policymakers have long sought to determine what drives people to keep fighting …

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