They apply staff college '7 step' methodology to problem solving or use the latest management-speak technique learned on their correspondence course with Staffordshire University, but do they really think about the problems in wider, indeed global sense?
And at the risk of being controversial, I bet neither ISIL nor the Taleban bothered with the 7 step approach! Maybe that's how we defeat them - sign them up to staff college and wait for them to seize up and institutionalise!