His pen turned out to have been prolific, including brutally frank assessments of the violent uprisings in Syria in the 1980s and Algeria in the 1990s, and a host of training manuals.

事实上，他的确用笔写过很多东西。比如，他对上世纪八十年代在叙利亚和九十年代在阿尔及利亚爆发的武装叛变进行过毫不掩饰的粗暴评论以及许多训练手册。