BW,

Just to clarify an easily misunderstood comment I made about COIN and CT. What I meant was that the intel community is too quick to label insurgents who engage in acts of terror as "terrorists"; and that we then apply CT tactics against these insurgents (which is really counterinsurgent or CI I guess) operations.
That does clarify things and I agree completely. I do think there are many intel people who are uninterested in motivations which is lazy thinking and counterproductive.