are pretty much straight from the old-school Trotskyite/Leninist insurgent organization models.

It is no coincidence that the NeoCons and the NeoRight have been using the same rulebook. There are two reasons:

1. It works, and it has worked for time immemorial - Machiavelli probably wrote it down (in the West, that is...Sun Tsu wrote the rules down first).

2. A lot of the NeoCons come from the same roots as many of the boomer radicals - many of the leading neocons are former Stalinists and Trotskyites from the 50's...and many of the NeoRight are former New Left (David Horowitz, for example).

The reason the Machiavelli/Trotsky/Lenin/Alinsky modes of operation work is because they are based on careful observation of human behavior in both group and individual conditions.

(Note that this has NOTHING to do with political policies, and EVERYTHING to do with organizational tactics).