The Advent of Netwar - Softcover

Arquilla, J. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833024140 ISBN 13: 9780833024145

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 1996

Synopsis

The term Netwar refers to societal conflict and crime, short of war, in which the protagonists are organized more as sprawling leaderless networks than as tightknit hierarchies. The emergence of netwar raises the need to rethink strategy and doctrine to conduct counternetwar.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This documented briefing was prepared for a project on new modes of information-age conflict titled "Advent of Netwar." That project is sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence), OASD (C3I), and is being conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute (NDRI). NDRI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies.This document provides an overview of the "netwar" concept, which we have been developing for the purpose of better understanding the nature of conflict and crime in the information age. The document is based on several briefings that we have presented since May 1995 using charts like those included here.A briefing is supposed to tell a story at a pace and in a way that attracts the listeners' attention, the better to inform them. Readers unfamiliar with the briefing style should be apprised that while the text is meant to expand on the points of the chart, not all points are always addressed in the text, and the text may not echo precisely the wording on a chart. That can be particularly true for a briefing with as many charts as this one.Primarily of interest to U.S. government officials and policy analysts, this briefing should also interest those concerned with the changing nature of conflict and crime in the information age.Comments are invited.John ArquillaAssociate ProfessorDept. of National Security AffairsU.S. Naval Postgraduate SchoolMonterey, CA 93943(408) 656-3450jarquilla@mntry.nps.navy.milDavid RonfeldtSenior Social ScientistInternational Policy GroupRANDSanta Monica, CA 90407-2138(310) 393-0411ronfeldt@rand.org

About the Author:

John Arquilla (Ph.D., Political Science, Stanford University) is a Rand consultant and a professor of foreign policy at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0833024140
• ISBN 13: 9780833024145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118