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Originally Posted by edslunch

No doubt this is true for a hard-core of ISIS members but there are also reports of disillusionment and desertion as the situation gets tougher for them. The best defense may be offense – keep them on the run

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blo...nada-documents

There's definitely been a few cases of this. However, many of the stories I've heard of ISIS fighters abandoning their post involve Western kids who thought they could go play Rambo. They get over there and realize what actual battle is like and then yearn for their parents' basement again.

The recruits from middle east, the caucus, etc.. are hardened militants and psychopaths. Their alternative isn't go back to Canada and continue your engineering degree. It's go back to your war torn dictatorship with ultra stringent conservative values and poverty.

You've got to keep in mind that ISIS has an estimated 100-200,000 fighters now. Of course your going to see a fraction any such group become disallusioned and leave. Particularly when ISIS essentially demands suicide from it's members.