• ISRAEL UDOH
• Oluwadare, Alabi
• Oluwaseun, Fatoba
• UKOH, ENO-OBONG EFFIONG

Leadership decapitation, the preferential policy of targeting/interdiction of terrorist leadership class in CT environment derived its policy justification from the psychological beliefs that such tactical approach is key to disrupting and destabilizing of the operational/strategic functioning of the organization. Hence accelerate the weakening of the organization’s cohesiveness and capacity to conduct operations, which are prerequisites for the collapse of the organization. Given the high resilience characteristics, unperturbed dynamics and the proliferation of terrorist groups as well as other institutions of organized crime in recent years, most scholars have appraised the failure of the kingpin strategy from the perspective of insufficient credible intelligence gathering and analysis endemics to the system. We x-rayed the popular mono-tactical CT approach on the lens of conformity to the fundamental principle of social justice, equity and fairness – the performance measure of any socio-economic and political agenda in human society. We showed that, though the prioritization of leadership decapitation may have greater utility in depopulating key echelon of the organization in the short term, but in general such approach in a crime fighting environment does not conform to either the fundamental principles of preferential service in a queuing system, or the basic principle of social justice, equity and fairness in human society. The security implication of this tactical approach is the high system discrimination and unfairness coefficients; high interdiction of foot-soldiers’ class in expense of key terrorist leaders; the overall high waiting and sojourn times of the operatives as well as high delay probability and response time of the CT forces. To address these conflict, the study recommended the deployment of multi-tactical (e.g. sticks and carrots) alternative approach as well as the deployment of specialized non-conventional covert intelligence agents to infiltrate CT environment, and boost credible intelligence for proper identification, categorization, and smart targeting of terrorist locations. These results which might sound simpler and intuitive to many researchers can be used to build confidence in CTRAQF unfairness and class discrimination metrics; both of which are very new to the terror-queue theorists and hence require examination and trust building. Once the deserved confidence and trust has been built, CTRAQF model can be used to evaluate and study CT systems where the results may not be explicit.

Leadership decapitation, CTRAQF, Prioritization, class discrimination, system unfairness, covert intelligence agents

"THE COUNTER-TERRORISM RESOURCE ALLOCATION QUEUING FAIRNESS APPRAISAL OF LEADERSHIP DECAPITATION APPROACH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.e480-e501, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112460.pdf

"THE COUNTER-TERRORISM RESOURCE ALLOCATION QUEUING FAIRNESS APPRAISAL OF LEADERSHIP DECAPITATION APPROACH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppe480-e501, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112460.pdf