5, Leadership
Like any other organization, ISIS has a leader who goes by the name of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. What many don’t know is that he has more than two dozen deputies, many of whom were active in the military during the Saddam Hussein era. The leadership has thus brought on board a very important military element, which has allowed it to operate in a more organized manner, rather than making the naïve mistakes of an average rebel group.
