The attacks on Paris were part of a new form of warfare: continuous conflict. It must be understood if the crushing of communities and the sapping of belief in a future are to be halted Daesh, as Islamic State is known in the Arab world, is operating a strategy in three dimensions. First it is fighting for what it regards as the homeland of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Second comes the cyber campaign for recruiting, propaganda and incitement to a global Islamic community.Third is the international terror campaign which saw three major strikes in a fortnight in three different lands – the downing of the Russian Metrojet airliner over Sinai by a ­luggage bomb; a devastating bombing of a market in a Shiite Hezbollah district of Beirut last week; and the multiple shootings