How to Defeat Islam By Tom Snodgrass

To defeat stateless Jihadi groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban, we must jettison our Cold War national security thinking featuring limited war and instead realistically reassume our World War II strategic offensive posture.

The framework for war

Today a debate rages. Part of the debate, certainly the most immediate component of the debate, is what to do with Iraq. To cut-and-run seems unthinkable when one considers the consequences. To stay and pursue existing strategies seems almost as unthinkable given the corrosive effects domestically and the lack of American will for another long drawn out war with no real end in sight. The other part of this debate concerns itself with the larger or more strategic aspects: Are we at war? Who exactly is the enemy? Can we win this war as a war?

But, precisely because people engage in “debates” predicated upon loosely or poorly grounded “opinions,” I have over the past year attempted to provide some clear theoretically grounded judgments on these questions. This essay is an attempt to summarize those judgments.

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