&gt;To be effective, attacks should be launched against soft targets that cannot possibly be defended to any appreciable degree, leading to a debilitating security state:<p>&gt;    &quot;If a tourist resort that the Crusaders patronize…is hit, all of the tourist resorts in all of the states of the world will have to be secured by the work of additional forces, which are double the ordinary amount, and a huge increase in spending.&quot;<p>That is huge misunderstanding by the author. That is absolutely standard military tactic at least as old as Sun Tzu art of war. The idea is to force enemy to spend more money than you are spending. Security state is just meaningless side effect for ISIS point of view.