Really important backgrounder:
icsr.info/2018/08/20/rei…
1. Financial benefits
2. Protection
3. Military capacity
4. Ideology
Less than 20% of recruits joined for ideological reasons.
- Surging strains on the #SDF's makeshift prison network holding 1,000s of #ISIS prisoners, raises risks of eventual #ISIS attacks, aimed at replicating #Iraq’s 2012-3 “Breaking the Walls.”
Given lack of ideological devotees, this risks *creating* more dedicated, global jihadis than were originally captured.