Army Study: Pay Attention to What Al Qaeda Says

Apologies to Homer Simpson and Team America, World Police--The Combatting Terrorism Center says the US should read those captured Al Qaeda documents that lay out the internal workings of Bin Laden's network:

To achieve long-term success in degrading the broader movement driving terrorist violence, however, the CTC believes the United States must begin aggressively digesting the body of work that comprises jihadi macro-strategy. We therefore also seek to apply our model to the ideological dimension of al-Qa’ida revealed in numerous instances in these documents, the goal being to identify ways to facilitate the ideational collapse of this body of thought. The included documents provide insights into the points of strategic dissonance and intersection among senior leaders that must be better understood in order to be exploited.

Well, better late than never, I guess. Hope it is not now too late...Apparently it is intended as a rebuttal to Martin van Crevald's theories in The Transformation of War.(ht Guns and Butter Blog)