Grasp of Strategy

Compare and Contrast:

The distance in strategic understanding between the Iranian clerics' worldview as described in an article in the current issued of Parameters, the US Army War College quarterly, and that of Al-Qurashi, the close lieutenant of OBL whose account of fourth generation warfare was published in the al-Qaida net journal Al-Ansar, is vast -- and significant at both ends.

It is particularly telling that Al-Qurashi reads (and quotes from) such sources as the Marine Corps Gazette and Parameters.

Sources:

Parameters: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/04autumn/russell.htm
Al-Ansar via MEMRI: http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=middleeast&ID=SP34402