The prime Minister knows what is about to happen and I suspect that has given him his recent fire and ice demeanour...
Concerning Genaral Giap you ask an excellent question but I believe have based it on a faulty premise. I'm not sure the post-Islamic world is capable of creating a strategist of the calibre of Giap -- or even desires to. Giap was a prolific writer, something of a poet -- and fought in World War II and at senior levels in the First and Second Vietnam Wars. I'm not certain, but it is also my understanding he devised operational planning to launch a guerilla style fight across the border into Cambodia in 1978 but was subsequently overruled by the Politboro.
He was a professional soldier willing to sustain heavy losses factored by impeccable logistical planning. The Islamic entente has not the long history of warfare to have such a man/woman developed at this stage of their kampf. Their General Giap is probably 25-30 years old now -- having previously fought in Chechnya or the Balkans -- and perhaps commanding a hundred or so fighters in the coming battle...
It is unfortunate more Western leaders are unable to discern between elegance and sophistication as you have done -- no doubt some Far Eastern harmony helping you make that distinction. However as mentioned your thesis has one startling flaw:
What makes you think this coup de main has been developed by an Islamic entente strategist? The "jihad planners" you refer to have long recognised this weakness in their command structure. Like a modern day Western corporation on the ropes they have gone outside the organisation for this one. Look at the Giap-like sophistication of the logistical planning and the willingness of the Islamic entente high command to see their veteran stosstruppen wiped out if necessary in Hue and Saigon-like urban strikes...
This is no traditional Muslim attack sequence...
If you don't think a WMD strike can be conventional while still doing a lot of damage look at the South Korean subway attack. One man sparked quite the conflagration -- now think of a pair of Oklahoma City style explosions bolstered by incendiary boosters. This could be interpreted as "elegance" -- I guess -- although the results are almost too chilling to contemplate.
The fact remains that the Islamic entente now has the capability in place to launch a Tet style attack across the width and breadth of the UK. Such a simultaneous uprising, combined with the WMD strike on London, will win World War III for the Islamic entente if opposition forces can exploit this breach.
President Bush must move up the American attack on Iraq or the 21st century Chamberlains of "Old Europe" will have opened the door for the modern day Dark Ages the Muslim holy man has prophesied.
Going back to a chess analogy -- if you can visualise the Western armies (US and Britain) as the two Knights on the board at the start of the game and the Islamic entente (Iraq and al Qaeda) as the two Bishops...
The Knights are important attack elements that are critical in controlling the centre -- a key objective in chess -- with Bishops more suited for wing attack. However when paired, two Bishops offer more strength than two Knights and are a mating force -- unlike the pair of Knights.
Thus when two Knights match up against two Bishops the experienced player will always seek to exchange his Knight for one of the opponent's Bishops. That is because -- voila! -- one Knight is far stronger in the end game than one Bishop when the two are matched up.
The inherant strength of paired Bishops is their long range attack capability while commanding parallel diagonals. The Islamic entente has the UK in their sights with the Western King always in danger of being checkmated while both Iraq and al Qaeda still survive. However when Iraq is destroyed -- the remaining Islamic entente Bishop (al Qaeda) becomes weaker by much more than half -- then the surviving Western Knight (America) is the heavy favourite to ultimately triumph.
If it takes sacrificing London to defeat Iraq and save all mankind from the modern day Dark Ages then so be it. Tony Blair has made this agonising decision just as Churchill did in 1940 with Coventry. The exchange will be brutal -- with hundreds of thousands killed...
But lacking the elegance you mention, the West must rely on its "sophistication" to triumph. However should the West wait too long to exchange pieces then the Islamic entente may indeed checkmate the castled Western King...
May the Christian god have mercy on the UK...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
In the battle of Tetevo, the Albanian Muslims, led by Chechens and other al-Qaeda took to the high ground forcing the Slavs to fight uphill with small arms. The Bosnian Muslims also advised by Afghan Arabs including al-Qaeda would also take the high ground and defend the mountain tops but Serbian tactics defeated them each time. FYROM military leadership lacked the tactical abilities of the great Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic who would leave the Muslims on the mountain top and drive pincer movements around the base of the mountain cutting off the Muslims. This classic Prussian Kesselslacht doctrine is designed to encircle the defenders and forces the defense to go on the offensive to break free. The tactical superiority of the defense is then transferred on the attackers. Bosnian Muslim ranks broke on the superior Serbian defense composed of some of the best artillery in Europe.
Thus the Giap doctrine is in effect in the Balkans, though modified for a guerilla army using infantry weapons rather than artillery for its besieging.
Already the Kacanik Valley has been denied to NATO's Kosovo force forcing KFOR to rely on air supply mainly and has abandon the supply route from FYROM.
Prepare for urban warfare in Iraq. It is in the urban sprawls of central Iraq where we will see if what the Chechens have learned in Grozny has been taught to the Sunni Arabs. Will Baghdad become another Manila or Hue?
Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic was great enough to know not to send in his forces into the urban concrete jungle of Sarajevo. Attacks into defended cities wastes men.