http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/
Global Guerrillas, the book, the doctrine, the weblog
I've been known to read warblogs. I don't have
much use for them. The guys who run them always strike me as
pyjama-bottom chickenhawk Guderians or
blithering Trotskyite wingnuts.
I'm kinda digging John Robb's warblog, though.
"Global Guerrillas," this is my kinda warblog.
You ever read my 80s novel ISLANDS IN THE NET?
The one with a sinister, imaginary book of military
strategy in it called THE LAWRENCE DOCTRINE
AND POSTINDUSTRIAL INSURGENCY? Well,
this blog feels a lot like I imagined
that book would have felt. Kinda floods
the mind with creepily subversive 21st century
insight.
The problem with 4th Generation Warfare theorists
is that they still think that Al Qaeda susses
out the global situation much the way that they do. This
just isn't so. Al Qaeda thinks of themselves
as a madrassa, a seminary for martyrs. They don't analyze
systemic vulnerabilities
in terms of single points of failure or
leveraged returns on investment. Every act
of war they commit is a warcrime; their
primary motive is a life-annihilating grand passion;
they revel in publicly and bloodily
bursting the bonds of mere Western reason.
They do this because they know that the West
can't go into that cultural headspace; so this is
their primary moral weapon in the culture war.
You won't see theorists from RAND strapping bomb-belts
on themselves to go extort more think-tank funding out
of the Air Force.
This Saudi guy here, Saad al-Faqih, he seems to get it about
the way Al Qaeda thinks strategically. I think this is the
skinny here.
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=397&&issue_id=2907
Make the Moronic Cowboy Americans Your Tools to Split the West
