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augusti 23, 2003
Networks and Netwars - och andra böcker från RAND
Boken Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy, redigerad av John Arquilla och David Ronfeldt, handlar om "nätverkskriget" och finns att ladda ner som en massa PDF-filer. Amazon-länk.
Summary:
The fight for the future is not between the armies of leading states, nor are its weapons those of traditional armed forces. Rather, the combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, or drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia and Mexico. On the positive side are civil-society activists fighting for the environment, democracy and human rights. What all have in common is that they operate in small, dispersed units that can deploy anywhere, anytime to penetrate and disrupt. They all feature network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to the information age. And, from the Intifadah to the drug war, they are proving very hard to beat.
Även Swarming and the Future of Conflict av samma författare kan vara intressant att kika på. Amazon-länk.
Det finns flera andra RAND-böcker online via www.rand.org/publications.
Posted by hakank at augusti 23, 2003 02:03 EM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks