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My attention was caught by the authors\u2019 distinction, and how they made it, between the military vulnerability of the \u201cIslamic State\u201d and the relatively elusive character of al-Qa\u2018ida.<\/p>\n
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It parallels quite closely the distinction that I often make (in print and, as recently as last night, in presentations) between the successful guerrilla tactics of the Gadianton Robbers in the Book of Mormon and the military disaster of their \u201cpremature regularization.\u201d<\/p>\n
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