Antony Kagirison

Antony Kagirison

  • Joined: April 19, 2024
  • Articles: 12

Strategic Objectives and Operational Aims of Al-Shabaab’s Jihad in Kenya

What happens when the communist war strategy of the Viet Cong is combined with elements of political postmodernism and the ideological Islamism of Sayyid Hussein Qutb when creating a transnational armed movement? Has such a thing ever happened?What happens when an ideologically committed armed non-state actor uses the advantages of political postmodernism to craft an Islamist narrative that replaces the organizing principles of tribe and nationality?

Fatal Future of Kenya: On Ethno-Terrorism, Acrid Politics, Sunni Islamism, and Low Information Population

Kenya is a fragile state crippled by negative tribalism, rabid corruption, and Islamist-driven ethno-terrorism, which have operated concertedly to erode the basic pillars of the state, besides gravitating it towards state failure. Lack of nationalism in Kenya (even Jomo Kenyatta was unsure of it), and politicization of patriotism, largely owe their existence to a poorly informed public and a clique of political elite who have consistently endeavored to safeguard their blinkered interests from legitimate political competition; as well as the need of partisan interests to hold and utilize state power and privileges to suppress, manipulate, or malform political opposition, in addition to incapacitating the intelligentsia.

Rigathi Gachagua of the Republic of Kenya

If Rigathi Gacahagua succeeds William Samoei Ruto as the President of Kenya, he’ll be facing a jihadist insurgency in Kenya and an intelligence service infested with Islamists plotting his assassination. Will President Gachagua win the war against al-Qaeda and Islamic State/ISIS in Kenya?

Applied Perception Management: How Team Kagirison Could Implement Perception Management in the Israel-Hamas War

Perception management falls under strategic communication. Strategic communication is made up of three components; soft power, public diplomacy, and information operations. Failure to include strategic communication during the planning of a campaign leads to poor communications and the broadcasting of bad narratives.

How Team Kagirison Would Have Engaged in Narrative Management for Israel

Kagirison Narrative Perception
Our custom-designed DnF framework aims to decompose an existing narrative into its constituent parts so as to understand how these parts are related, and how their relationships can be exploited to destroy the narrative (what we describe as narrative decommissioning), or reforming the narrative (which we describe as narrative reformation), or creating a modified narrative (which is basically narrative re-engineering).

TerrorFront Kenya: Threat Assessment of Al-Shabaab in Kenya Prior to Its Takeover of Somalia

The American CTS can be described as facile, academic, and rewarding to Islamist populations that need to be punished severely, even destroyed if possible. Instead, American CTS forces the victimized populations to bear the cost of war while cajoling the hostile Islamist populations. Al-Shabaab has prolifically exploited this disastrous CTS to entrench itself inside Kenya.