The Accelerated Battlespace: Extremism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reshaping of Global Security, 2025–26

 Introduction: Extremism in the Accelerated Battlespace The defining security challenge of the mid-2020s is not the ظهور of a singular, dominant terrorist organization or a new ideological doctrine—it is the convergence of persistent extremism with rapidly accelerating technological capability inside a fractured geopolitical order. Artificial intelligence, automation, and globally networked digital infrastructure have not created…