Although the ASG has, thus far, been unable to achieve its strategic goal of an Islamic state, the members of
ASG have, however, accomplished their operational goals of international publicity and notoriety, namely
through their direct challenge to state authority.
This challenge has been characterized by increasingly sophisticated and lethal acts of organized violence.
Additionally, despite its small size and the state’s increasing resolve to eradicate it, the ASG has survived
and even flourished.
The numerous successes the ASG has enjoyed as a result of its terror campaigns have served its operational
objectives of publicizing the Moro struggle, which has had the added benefit of increasing foreign aid by
other Islamic terror organizations, as well as helping to recruit new fighters for the continued insurgency
efforts.