AN AMERICAN MILITARY VIEW OF ISLAMISM
“Islam, Islamism and Terrorism” by Colonel Norvelle B. De Atkine
The author is a retired ME area specialist for the U.S. Army. I would quibble with many of his characterizations – organizational techniques are not ” doctrine” for example – but he is correct that Islamism is not monolithic; it differs from conservative, traditionalist, ” fundamentalist” Islamic thought; the violent advocates of jihad have maximalist, takfiri-totalitarian aspirations and are highly selective in their reification of Quranic passages to suit political or tactical purposes.
Hat tip to Jedburgh of The Small Wars Council
collounsbury:
January 8th, 2006 at 1:21 am
Interesting article. Annoying layout but interesting. I shall try to comment on it.
mark:
January 8th, 2006 at 4:34 am
I didn’t care for the layout either. PDF files are problematic enough for my work computer ( compensated though by the high speed color laser printer which alllows me to print out small books in a couple of minutes) and the back and forth to screen read it was irritating.
The Jedburgh guy however, digs up a fair number of good articles on a regular basis from the mil journals. Very useful.