Cheryl Benard was program director for Alternative Strategies with the RAND Corporation's National Security Research Division. Her publications include Toy Soldiers, The Youth Factor in the War on Terror. Eurojihad, Patterns of Islamist Radicalization in Europe; and The Taliban Must Purge Itself. Her book Civil Democratic Islam was found on Bin Laden's bookshelf when he was killed. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/features/bin-laden-s-bookshelf