The next major attack will not likely involve civilian aircraft; that target has been effectively crippled, wounded not killed so that resources must be squandered to care for it. More likely will be a target (or targets) which provides a sense of security and does not appear to be a source of danger and fear. Where there are few protections in place, and where the shock of attack will be maximized, not just in casualities but in its unexpectedness. The attack should have the effect on Western culture, say, that bombing of Mecca would have on Islam. That is, it should be so violently audacious that long-standing presumptions that the enemy would never do such a thing are overwhelmed. Under this scenario attack by weapons of mass destruction are not likely because of the overplay of their possible use. What then would be such an attack, least expected and most likely to be unprotected against? Most likely is a widely distributed attack, perhaps simultaneous but best to be staggered or unpredictable in time and how extensive the attack is and what all its targets are. With unpredictable pauses in the campaign, a combination of rapid fire hits, pauses, seeming cessation, then a hit or two, weird and shocking concordances and discordances with other events, violations and cruelties beyond conventional belief, beyond reason and madness. A clue to understanding what an attack like this would be is to imagine what would cause battle shock in the citizenry, not terror and flight, but incapacitation of the mind and body to function without physically harming most of the victims. One likely cause of this breakdown is lack of information about what is going on and what will happen next, where danger lies and when will violence against loved ones and self occur next. Dread of the unknown after initial evidence that horror is sure to come, and is inexcapable no matter what measures have been taken to prevent it. By now it is clear that this is what the US military did in Afghanistan, and what is most likely to be done to the US and its allies in vengeful payback, if not soon then eventually. Calling in F-15s to combat shoes containing explosives shows how Western military forces helplessly misgauge its enemies. So, too, does declaring the US has won in Afghanistan when it has not engaged the enemy, and when it has repeatedly failed to protect its forces, its embassies and its cities from asymmetric attack. The US and its allies is fiercest in engaging in propaganda, ably assisted by commercial propagandists, the news media. Beheading the centers of information warfare would be the end of Western culture.