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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
- Robert Heinlein
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 Format: Paperback, 525 pages
Publisher: Rand Corporation, The
ISBN: 0833025147
Release Date: Jan 3, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
The information revolution—which is as much an organizational as a technological revolution—is transforming the nature of conflict across the spectrum: from open warfare, to terrorism, crime, and even radical social activism. The era of massed field armies is passing, because the new information and communications systems are increasing the lethality of quite small units that can call in deadly, precise missile fire almost anywhere, anytime. In social conflicts, the Internet and other media are greatly empowering individuals and small groups to influence the behavior of states. Whether in military or social conflicts, all protagonists will soon be developing new doctrines, strategies, and tactics for "swarming" their opponents—with weapons or words, as circumstances require. Preparing for conflict in such a world will require shifting to new forms of organization, particularly the versatile, hardy, all-channel network. This shift will prove difficult for states and professional militaries that remain bastions of hierarchy, bound to resist institutional redesign. They will make the shift as they realize that information and knowledge are becoming the key elements of power. This implies, among other things, that Mars, the old brute-force god of war, must give way to Athena, the well-armed goddess of wisdom. Accepting Athena as the patroness of this information age represents a first step not only for preparing for future conflicts, but also for preventing them.
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We have been posing our ideas about conflict in the information age for some years now, beginning in 1991 with our original ruminations about cyberwar, then about netwar, and lately about information strategy. With each step, we have kept returning to a favorite set of themes organization is as crucial as technology in understanding the information revolution; this revolution is giving rise to network forms of organization; and the rise of networks will continue to accrue power to nonstate actors, more than to states, until states adapt by learning to remold their hierarchies into hybrids that incorporate network design elements. Meanwhile, we have kept our eyes on emerging trends in conflict from the end of the Persian Gulf War, through recent developments in places like Chechnya and Chiapas to further our understanding that the context and conduct of conflict is changing from one end of the spectrum to the other. New modes of war, terrorism, crime, and even radical activism are all these emerging from similar information-age dynamics? If so, what is the best preparation for responding to such modes? When the subject is warfare, for example, it is common wisdom that militaries tend to prepare for the last war, and there is much historical evidence to support this notion. Today, however, it is clear that defense establishments around the world and especially in the United States are thinking about how war will change, how the revolution in military affairs (RMA) will unfold, and how the next war may well be quite different from the last. Whether the focus is warfare, terrorism, crime, or social conflict, we have striven to anticipate what the spectrum of future wars and other typesof conflicts will look like. If our approach proves correct, then perhaps this volume can help defense planners prepare for the next war instead of the last. We hope that our own and our contributors' views are largely correct, and that our collective insights will prove useful to those, both civilians and military personnel, who are entrusted with developing and implementing national security strategy. We also hope that the studies in this volume are clear and compelling enough to attract a broad, general readership, since, without greater public understanding and support, all efforts to prepare effectively for conflict in the information age could go astray. The preparation of this volume has been supported by RAND and by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence) and was carried out in the Acquisition Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies.
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David F. Ronfeldt (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) is a Senior Social Scientist at RAND whose research focus includes information revolution, netwar, cyberocracy, strategic swarming and the rise of transnational networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
| |  | | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | Foreword: The New Intangibles | | | Ch. 1 | A New Epoch - and Spectrum - of Conflict | 1 | | Ch. 2 | Cyberwar is Coming! | 23 | | Ch. 3 | Preparing for the Next War: Reflections on the Revolution in Military Affairs | 61 | | Ch. 4 | An Information-Based Revolution in Military Affairs | 79 | | Ch. 5 | Another View of the Revolution in Military Affairs | 99 | | Ch. 6 | Information, Power, and Grand Strategy: In Athena's Camp - Section 1 | 141 | | Ch. 7 | Warfare in the Information Age | 175 | | Ch. 8 | The Small and the Many | 191 | | Ch. 9 | Information Warfare: Time for Some Constructive Skepticism? | 217 | | Ch. 10 | Emerging Challenge: Security and Safety in Cyberspace | 231 | | Ch. 11 | An Exploration of Cyberspace Security R&D Investment Strategies for DARPA | 253 | | Ch. 12 | The Advent of Netwar | 275 | | Ch. 13 | Societal Implications | 295 | | Ch. 14 | Transnational Criminal Organisations and International Security | 315 | | Ch. 15 | Responding to Terrorism Across the Technological Spectrum | 339 | | Ch. 16 | A Comment on the Zapatista "Netwar" | 369 | | Ch. 17 | Neocortical Warfare? The Acme of Skill | 395 | | Ch. 18 | Information, Power, and Grand Strategy: In Athena's Camp - Section 2 | 417 | | Ch. 19 | Looking Ahead: Preparing for Information-Age Conflict | 439 | | Contributors | |
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