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MeatballWiki | RecentChanges | Random Page | Indices | CategoriesNetworks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy, by John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt (editors), ISBN 0-8330-3030-2 (alternate, search).
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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.
Contents
Preface Summary Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The Advent of Netwar (Revisited)
Part I: Violence-Prone Netwars
Chapter Two: The Networking of Terror in the Information Age
Chapter Three: Transnational Criminal Networks
Chapter Four: Gangs, Hooligans, and Anarchists - The Vanguard of Netwar In the Streets
Part II: Social Netwars
Chapter Five: Networking Dissent: Cyber Activists Use the Internet to Promote Democracy In Burma
Chapter Six: Emergence and Influence of the Zapatista Social Netwar
Chapter Seven: Netwar in the Emerald City: WTO Protest Strategy and Tactics
Part III: Once and Future Netwars
Chapter Eight: Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism: The Internet as a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy
Chapter Nine: the Structure of Social Movements: Environmental Activism and Its Opponents
Chapter Ten: What Next for Networks and Netwars?
Afterword (September 2001): The Sharpening Fight for the Future
Contributors
About the Authors
Copyright © 2001 RAND
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