Colonel Wal Riley (ret’d) draws parallels between the Islamic precept of jihad, as applied in the contemporary world to terrorism, and Mao Zedong’s concept of revolutionary guerrilla war which put the Communist Party into power in China, and was subsequently exported throughout the Third World. To fight terrorism, he says Australia must learn the lessons of guerrilla war.The current and major threat identified in the Defence Update 2005 is, not surprisingly, terrorism, and it quite rightly refer…
