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"Pioneer of the concept of "netwar" explains why Bitskrieg is here to stay"--

"First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."--Provided by publisher.

"From the small bands of wilderness warriors who battled in 18th-century North America to the "Chechen Lion," and the contemporary conflict in Chechnya, John Arquilla chronicles the deadly careers of the greatest masters of irregular warfare over the past 250 years. Their impact on events has been profound, with irregulars playing crucial roles in such epochal struggles as the Anglo-French duel for North America, the defeat of Napoleon in Spain and Russia, the American Civil War, both world wars, and the current era of terrorism. Seeing the world through the eyes of guerrillas, raiders and bandits, Arquilla has written an alternative history that provides lessons for warfare in our time that must not be ignored." -- From publisher's web site

17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under temporary embargo. ; U.S. Government affiliation is unstated in article text.

The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2771281 ; John Arquilla considers the evolution of defense drones, and why Duncan A. Buell thinks we are not ready for e-voting.

Writing amid the early tensions of the Cold War, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of nuclear weapons, asserted in 1956 that "the world cannot endure half-darkness and half-light." Yet endure it did for another three decades -- catastrophe was averted at the end of the Cold War. Some networks harness the darkness of terrorism; others mobilize civil society to overthrow dictators. All the while, nations keep wary watch over each other, for this is an age replete with threat, an era when older weapons of mass destruction coexist with newer ones capable of mass disruption. Oppenheimer's imagery of the deadly interplay between dark and light forces still applies. The 71 participants in the third annual Foreign Policy Survey on the future of war make clear that the task ahead is going to be complex, confusing, and rife with hard-to-control elements. Adapted from the source document.

Comments on Thomas Rid's "Cyberwar is Already Upon Us" (same journal issue).