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Political Grace. The art of disagreeing well. AND The Ultimate Countermeasure to those who would Divide!: Intentional unity. The Future of War and how it affects YOU Multi-Domain Operations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE OUTSTANDING post/link/discussiom. Thank you. The Quranic Concept of War - JOSEPH C. MYERS “The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.” — Majid Khadduri When it comes to warfighting military audiences tend to focus on the military and power aspects of warfare; the tangibles of terrain, enemy, weather, leadership, and troops; quantifiables such as the number of tanks and artillery tubes—the correlation of forces. Analysts steer toward the familiar rather than the unfamiliar; people tend to think in their comfort zones. The study of ideology or philosophy is often brushed aside, it‟s not the “stuff of muddy boots;” it is more cerebral than physical and not action oriented. Planners do not assess the “correlation of ideas.” The practitioners are too busy. Dr. Antulio Echevarria recently argued the US military does not have a doctrine for war as much as it has a doctrine for operations and battles. The military has a deficit of strategic, and, one could add, philosophic thinking. https://securitypolicylaw.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MyersJoseph.Quranic-Concept-of-War.pdf THE HUMAN DOMAIN. Who has advanced that domain greater than any nation/state since 9/11/2001? Sorry it all lumped together.