As a military strategist par-excellence you, Mr. Prabhakaran, know a stalemated war will never have Sri Lankan winners.

CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

I'm no military strategist, but I'm also quite confident that Hezbollah guerrillas would not have set up camp in a power station?

BBC: Should Israel pull out of Lebanon?

The commander, whom Ugandan officials say is a top rebel military strategist, was captured in the Central African Republic, one of several nations where the Ugandan-led LRA operates.

BBC: Uganda captures LRA senior commander

The publication, which described him as the Pakistan Taliban's No. 2 leader and chief military strategist, and said he participated in cross-border attacks in Afghanistan against U.S. and NATO personnel.

CNN: Pakistani Taliban vows to avenge death of No. 2 man

The doctrine of "shock and awe" is based on a book by military strategist Harlan Ullman, who is admired by both Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

BBC: Analysis: US 'shock and awe' tactic

Mr. HARLAN OLMAN (Military Strategist): Bob Gates is in essence becoming the surgeon or the doctor of a patient, in this case Iraq, which is equivalent to a person who is now in their 60s who has smoke and drunk considerably during their entire life and the doctor says you have lung cancer, you have heart cancer and your liver is failing.

NPR: Cultural Shift Coming at the Pentagon

Mr. Lawrence, chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, was a spokesman for the military coalition in Iraq during the Bush administration.

WSJ: Michael Chertoff and Dallas Lawrence: Investigating Terror in the Age of Twitter