Book summary plus thoughts of where war leads and what "the belief 
systems that soldiers will need".

al Qaeda is a "utopian religious ideology with no tolerance for 
subtlety. Guided by such single-minded objectives, there's no need to 
bother with formal, centralized leadership. With access to drug 
money, oil wealth, cheap weapons, and consumer-grade digital toys, 
they don't have to worry that 93% of people in the Muslim world still 
refuse to condone the 9/11 attacks. No one can control them: not 
their communities, their politicians, their leading clerics, nor even 
their ostensible figurehead, bin Laden himself. When forced out of 
one area, the fighters re-create another in their own image, as we 
see now in northwest Pakistan, marrying local women and investing in 
communities. That's what a runaway process looks like. And by 
fostering a subculture of hardened "warriors" rather than of soldiers 
bearing ethical responsibilities, where homosexuality means expulsion 
and theocratic elements run rampant, the Pentagon has been following 
its enemies' lead."

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