The author provides a detailed investigation of the facts surrounding human mental ability, its measurement, inheritability, possible neurobiological underpinnings, and its role as a currency in human mate choice. He links human mental ability with educational attainment, occupational attainment, occupational prestige, and earned income. The ethical and policy implications are profound for both liberal democratic and libertarian social thought.Class mobility is significantly mediated by human intelligence, and intelligence itself is significantly heritable. Liberal democratic and libertarian conservative social policies require substantial revision in light of these findings. New forms of socioenvironmental and genomic intervention recommend themselves.The author provides a detailed investigation of the facts surrounding human mental ability, its measurement, inheritability, possible neurobiological underpinnings, and its role as a currency in human mate choice. He links human mental ability with educational attainment, occupational attainment, occupational prestige, and earned income. The ethical and policy implications are profound for both liberal democratic and libertarian social thought.

Dr. Kamolnick''s book is a meticulously documented investigation and comparison of the al-Qaeda and the Islamic State across three key strategically relevant dimensions: essential doctrine, beliefs, and worldview; strategic concept, including terrorist modus operandi; and in the final chapter, specific implications, and recommendations for current U.S. Government policy and strategy.Contents: Belief-System, Creed, Worldview, DoctrineThe Al-Qaeda Organization Sunni Islamic OrthodoxySunni-Salafism/"Fundamentalism"The Muwahhidun/Wahhabism/Salafi-Wahhabism Muslim Brotherhood-Salafi-WahhabiThe "Base of the Jihad"; Al-QaedaFrom Qa''idat Al-Jihad to Bin LadenismFrom Bin Ladenism Back to Qa''idat Al-JihadPost-Arab Spring Qa''idat Al-Jihad"What is Qa''idat Al-Jihad?" In a Nutshell:Fazul Abdullah and Adam GadahnIII. Islamic State Organization "Zarqawism" vs. AQO: Abu MusabAl-Zarqawi''s Worldview and Doctrine: 1989-June 7, 2006From Non-Religious Violent Street Tough to Ultra-Sectarian Salafi-Wahhabi Jihadist PrisonTough: 1980-1999Al-Zarqawi''s Private Jihasist Armies of the Levant: 1999-2004The History, Doctrines, and Worldview of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi''s "Caliphate":From ISI to the Caliphate: Brief Organizational HistorySelf-Proclaimed Emir Al-Muminin Abu Bakr Al-Hussaini Al-Qurayshi Al-Baghdadi:The Caliphate Now!The "Final Solution" to the "Shia Problem"Terrorist Modus OperandiTerrorist Quadrangle AnalysisThe Al-Qaeda Organization The "Classical" Base First Bin LadenistLone Mujahid""Far Enemy" StrategyIslamic State Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations for U.S. GovernmentKey FindingsBelief-Systems, Worldviews, Doctrines, CreedsStrategies and Terrorist Modus OperandiImplications for U.S. GovernmentPolicy and StrategiesImplications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat AQ and its AffiliatesImplications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat the IS

The author provides a detailed investigation of the facts surrounding human mental ability, its measurement, inheritability, possible neurobiological underpinnings, and its role as a currency in human mate choice. He links human mental ability with educational attainment, occupational attainment, occupational prestige, and earned income. The ethical and policy implications are profound for both liberal democratic and libertarian social thought.Class mobility is significantly mediated by human intelligence, and intelligence itself is significantly heritable. Liberal democratic and libertarian conservative social policies require substantial revision in light of these findings. New forms of socioenvironmental and genomic intervention recommend themselves.The author provides a detailed investigation of the facts surrounding human mental ability, its measurement, inheritability, possible neurobiological underpinnings, and its role as a currency in human mate choice. He links human mental ability with educational attainment, occupational attainment, occupational prestige, and earned income. The ethical and policy implications are profound for both liberal democratic and libertarian social thought.

Dr. Kamolnick''s book is a meticulously documented investigation and comparison of the al-Qaeda and the Islamic State across three key strategically relevant dimensions: essential doctrine, beliefs, and worldview; strategic concept, including terrorist modus operandi; and in the final chapter, specific implications, and recommendations for current U.S. Government policy and strategy.Contents: Belief-System, Creed, Worldview, DoctrineThe Al-Qaeda Organization Sunni Islamic OrthodoxySunni-Salafism/"Fundamentalism"The Muwahhidun/Wahhabism/Salafi-Wahhabism Muslim Brotherhood-Salafi-WahhabiThe "Base of the Jihad"; Al-QaedaFrom Qa''idat Al-Jihad to Bin LadenismFrom Bin Ladenism Back to Qa''idat Al-JihadPost-Arab Spring Qa''idat Al-Jihad"What is Qa''idat Al-Jihad?" In a Nutshell:Fazul Abdullah and Adam GadahnIII. Islamic State Organization "Zarqawism" vs. AQO: Abu MusabAl-Zarqawi''s Worldview and Doctrine: 1989-June 7, 2006From Non-Religious Violent Street Tough to Ultra-Sectarian Salafi-Wahhabi Jihadist PrisonTough: 1980-1999Al-Zarqawi''s Private Jihasist Armies of the Levant: 1999-2004The History, Doctrines, and Worldview of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi''s "Caliphate":From ISI to the Caliphate: Brief Organizational HistorySelf-Proclaimed Emir Al-Muminin Abu Bakr Al-Hussaini Al-Qurayshi Al-Baghdadi:The Caliphate Now!The "Final Solution" to the "Shia Problem"Terrorist Modus OperandiTerrorist Quadrangle AnalysisThe Al-Qaeda Organization The "Classical" Base First Bin LadenistLone Mujahid""Far Enemy" StrategyIslamic State Conclusions, Implications, and Recommendations for U.S. GovernmentKey FindingsBelief-Systems, Worldviews, Doctrines, CreedsStrategies and Terrorist Modus OperandiImplications for U.S. GovernmentPolicy and StrategiesImplications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat AQ and its AffiliatesImplications for Existing USG Policy and Strategy to Permanently Defeat the IS