Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy

摘要: From the Publisher: Book Introduction: The fight for future makes daily headlines. Its battles are not between armies of leading states, nor its weapons large, expensive tanks, planes and fleets regular armed forces. Rather, combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, drug smuggling cartels those in Colombia Mexico, militant anarchists Black Bloc that ran amok during Battle Seattle. Other protagonists civil-society activists fighting democracy human rights-from Burma to Balkans. What all have common is they operate small, dispersed units can deploy niimbly-anywhere, anytime. They know how penetrate disrupt, as well elude evade. All feature network forms organization, doctrine, strategy, technology attuned information age. And, Intifadah war, proving very hard beat; some may actually be winning. This story we tell. Author Bios: DAVID F. RONFELDT (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) a senior social scientist at RAND whose research focus includes revolution, netwar, cyberocracy, strategic swarming rise transnational networks nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). JOHN ARQUILLA consultant professor foreign policy United States Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California.