Briefly, a few links worth reading as you start your Monday…

• Regulating Complex Terrain in Counterinsurgency by Mike Innes
• Political Maneuver in Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen over at SWJ, a part of the definitive archive of Dave Kilcullen
• What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy by Max Abrahms
• … commentary on Max’s article is by The Faceless Bureaucrat AQ as Oddfellows (see my comments on an earlier IS article by Max here). 
• Tim Stevens at Ubiwar.com comments on The Al-Qaeda Media Machine by USC journalism and public diplomacy professor Phil Seib.  Update: Arab Media Shack comments on Phil’s paper as well.