Further Reading...

I haven’t finished digesting Will’s article yet, but there are two other very good articles I recommend for anyone following this thread or reading Will’s article here. The first was written by Marine LTC Michael F. Morris at the Army War College and originally published in Joint Force Quarterly_, entitled Al Qaeda as Insurgency1.html. The second was originally published in Parameters and was written by a Foreign Service Officer, Christopher Henzel, who is a graduate of the National War College, entitled The Origins of al Qaeda’s Ideology: Implications for U.S. Strategy. They are both good reading, especially the latter, and provide further resources into your study of this topic.

Both of them are linked here from the US Army Professional Writing Collection.