IP: From the RAND Corp -- Networks and Netwars the future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy (sent again with Summary)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

I found this interesting reading djf (an old RAND Alumni )

> http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/

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.

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