政府努力重新制订反恐战略，从完全的军事手段转向硬实力和软实力相结合的方式，这种方式强调“思想之战将与领土之战并驾齐驱；13 与‘激进伊斯兰’的斗争不仅是在身体上的斗争，而且也将是在文化上的斗争。”14
counter-terrorism strategy away from a strictly military approach to an approach that combines hard and soft power,13 whereby “the battle of ideas would be engaged alongside the battle for territory; the fight against ‘radical Islam’ would be cultural as much as corporeal”.