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1. "Al-Naba" editorial reiterates the progression up the Islamic State's operational ladder: years of grinding "nikayah" guerrilla warfare by lightly armed and loosely organized units, until the enemy is hollowed out and they're prepared to enter open battle and achieve "tamkin." 
2. "The mujahideen in Iraq didn't seize cities and realize tamkin overnight, as some imagine, nor did they form the organized army of the Caliphate and immediately enter a frontal war with the polytheists. Rather, they persisted in an exhausting war of attrition for years..."
3. "The soldiers of the Caliphate's guerrilla units spread in various countries are capable, God permitting, of repeating the lesson of the 'conquest of Mosul' once more, and planting that blessed experience in any land..."
