Editor's Note: With the arrival of the new year, Threat Lens presents its assessment of the state of the jihadist movement divided into its three main components: the Islamic State pole, the al Qaeda pole and the grassroots jihadist threat. This security-focused assessment is an excerpt from one of many such analyses found at Stratfor Threat Lens , a unique protective intelligence product designed with corporate security leaders in mind. Threat Lens enables industry professionals and organizations to anticipate, identify, measure and mitigate emerging threats to people, assets and intellectual property the world over. Threat Lens is the only unified solution that analyzes and forecasts security risk from a holistic perspective, bringing all the most relevant global insights into a single, interactive threat dashboard. As 2020 begins, the world is firmly in the post-Islamic State "caliphate" phase of the jihadist struggle.