Persistent insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the emergence of what some analysts, journalists, and politicians have described as the “global jihad” have helped renew interest in the question of how insurgents employ subversion. In Iraq, according to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the new government is threatened by “[s]ubversion and infiltration of emerging government institutions [and] security and intelligence services” (Jacoby, 2005, p. 8). More broadly, international “jihadis” are using violence and subversion to establish a “totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom,” according to theNational Security Strategy of the United States of America(White House,...