{"id":11066,"date":"2014-06-15T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11066"},"modified":"2014-06-15T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:05:05","slug":"the-economics-of-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/061514_1600_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ISIS, the terrorist group that has taken control of vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, clearly has an economic strategy writes Max Fisher:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The group has captured power plants and is selling electricity to the Syrian government \u2013 and using the funds to try to destroy it.<\/li>\n<li>It has also captured Iraqi oilfields and has plans to sell the oil to fund its operations.<\/li>\n<li>Up until now though they&#8217;ve funded themselves by simply confiscating the properties of those it doesn&#8217;t like. Despite calling itself an &#8220;Islamic&#8221; group this has included the assets of Muslims.<\/li>\n<li>Those who want to conduct humanitarian operations on its lands need to give the group a cut.<\/li>\n<li>It then uses that money to pay its fighters more than other groups \u2013 further swelling its ranks.<\/li>\n<li>It currently controls territory roughly the size of Belgium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fisher concludes &#8220;that ISIS appears to have been so successful\u2026says a lot about their strategic foresight, their long-term ambitions, and their ability to outlast their opponents&#8221;. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/6\/12\/5802824\/how-isis-is-exploiting-the-economics-of-syrias-civil-war\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/6\/12\/5802824\/how-isis-is-exploiting-the-economics-of-syrias-civil-war\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2014\/06\/12\/isis-economics\/\">The Dish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISIS, the terrorist group that has taken control of vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, clearly has an economic strategy writes Max Fisher: The group has captured power plants and is selling electricity to the Syrian government \u2013 and using the funds to try to destroy it. It has also captured Iraqi oilfields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/061514_1600_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}