Fully aware of the might and accelerating spread of Western power, the Islamists sought an indirect form of confrontation with the West. they defined a mode of total war in which the Muslim world's inferiority in technology and military power would not effect the outcome of the jihad. This strategy was formulated by Pakistani brigadier S.K. Malik in his 1979 book The Quranic Concept of War. According to Malik, the Koranic way of war is "inifinitely supreme [to] and [more] effective" than any other form of warfare because "in Islam a war is fought for the cause of Allah" and therefore all means and forms are justified and righteous. Terrorism, Malik argued, is the quintessence of the Islamic strategy for war: "Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end in itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent's heart is obtained hrdly anything is left to be achieved. It is the point where the means and the end meet and merge. Terror is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy; it is the decision we wish to impose upon him.