There are many ways to fight terrorism both in the United States and the rest of the world ... but is one of the options Buffy Summers?

Believe it or not, the demon fighting character played by Sarah Michelle Gellar on UPN's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has been mentioned in a paper written by ABC News military analyst Anthony Cordesman. The Center for Strategic and International Studies chair authored a paper several months ago called "Biological Warfare and the 'Buffy Paradigm.'" According to Zap2it, Cordesman said that the unpredictable nature of evil on the show and how Buffy and the Scoobs react to it could be "instructive to U.S. defense against chemical and biological attacks."

"I realize that those of you who are workaholics or who are simply mature and without children or younger relatives may never have seen this show," Cordesman said in the paper that also was recently cited by the New York Times. "It is, however, about a teen-age vampire slayer who lives in a world of unpredictable threats where each series of crises only becomes predictable when it is over and is followed by a new and unfamiliar one."

Just like how Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) has to rely on old or bad information from his ancient textbooks, so does the government when trying to deal with these new threats in today's world. However, while these actions on the show might be studied, Cordesman said these are ways not to react.

"The characters in 'Buffy' constantly try to create unrealistic plans and models, and livein a world where they never really face the level of uncertainty they must deal with," he said. "We can speculate on scenarios ... we can conduct studies and exercises, and we can write doctrine until hell freezes over. But our chances of really being much better than Buffy are simply not that great."