No Common War

This monograph examines the impact of modernism on contemporary security strategy development for religious, non-violent threats in the context of the Information Age. The monograph focuses on the challenge of strategy formulation resulting from modernism s interface with the threat from the Islamic Movement, the emergence of the digital terrain, and the US Department of Defense s (DOD) organizational culture. The thesis is presented in a deductive manner and argues that modernism has created a strategic security seam that is being exploited by the Islamic Movement to create and perpetuate a strategic pseudo-reality. Based on Islamic functional doctrines of deception, the pseudo-reality is amplified by the digital environment and the DOD s organizational culture. The thesis leads the reader to conclude that a new category of strategy must be created to free the US from this pseudo-reality and to compensate for the modernist shortfalls afflicting security strategy formulation.

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Richard Higgins is a combating terrorism professional and expert on the nexus between theology, communication, and information age unconventional warfare. Mr. Higgins is a graduate of Tufts University and the US National War College's CT Fellowship Program. He is currently and advisor to the Commander of US Special Operations Command.