From Homeland Security:Leading analyst sees Obama’s challenge as redefining “war on terror” as counterinsurgency.
“Paradigm shifts,” according to the famous formulation of historian Thomas Kuhn, occur when the reigning models which have guided a discipline no longer adequately account for new developments and data.
In an important essay titled Terrorism's Twelve Step Program, published in the scholarly journal The National Interest on the eve of the Obama inauguration, noted counterterror analyst Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and author of Inside Terrorism argues that many of the paradigms which have guided counterterror policy thinking since 9-11, and which the new administration will inherit, have become increasingly obsolete.
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My Comment: A good blog post .... a must read for better understanding on what is happening on the current war on terror.