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There's a different between the cathedral top down approach evident in Western bureaucracies and the collaborative bottom up approach used by insurgent factions. Its basically a race to see who can get the upper hand faster. We need to do rethinking in that an approach designed for the Cold War does not work as well for the kind of decentralized warfare we're faced with now.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

There's a different between the cathedral top down approach evident in Western bureaucracies and the collaborative bottom up approach used by insurgent factions.

I think a bit of hero worship of the terrorists is evident in this article. Linux is good, and Windows is bad. Terrorists are good, and the Pentagon is bad. Therefore, terrorists must be Linux and the Pentagon must be Windows. In reality, our grunt infantry pass on all kinds of ideas upwards because the penalty for seeming to doubt the wisdom of their superiors is at most a delay in promotion and perhaps an early departure from the military (given its up-or-out philosophy). Terrorists practice democratic centralism, which is another way of saying the leadership decides what the followers will do, and the followers "democratically" carry it out. The penalty for seeming to show a lack of respect for a terrorist leader by disagreeing with him can mean an early, unexpected and painful death. How many Americans have been sent out as unwitting suicide bombers for disagreeing with their superiors?