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Old 05-03-2008, 13:25 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by S-2 View Post
So what's the inside consensus on the al-Libi speculation, i.e. rationales for the six keys to the kingdom, validity as such?

I wonder how many juniors and seniors in colleges around the world are receiving in any course, seminar, guest lecture the insights into islamic jihadism that those cadets were receiving?

The study of assymetric warfare, islamic tribal/clan ethnology, terror networking and marketing, is amazing, leading edge stuff that's in the hands of handful of true applied and theoretical experts and a helluva lot of pretenders.

CTC is systemizing the experience into coherance for those cadets and I don't believe that anybody else in the world can currently provide anything similar.

It's an utterly unique academic boutique offering an incisive, focused curriculum of analysis and coursework. I find the notion fascinating that those twenty and twenty-one year old future infantry lieutenants will command rifle platoons with the developed perspectives of CTC behind them and well engrained.
S-2,

The vast majority of cadets will have been exposed to the CTC for only 1-2 hours. Only about 10-15% will have seen cultural anthropology, social network analysis, and/or Islamic philosophy and ideology.
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