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 tight-knit hierarchies. The emergence of netwar raises the need to rethink strategy and doctrine to conduct counternetwar.
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On the Net anyone, anywhere may be a combatant, voluntarily or involuntarily. Netwar appears inevitable, and Arquilla and Ronfeldt offer remarkable insight into the forms that might develop. . . . The antidote to sentimentalized virtual communities. -- Whole Earth Magazine
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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
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This documented briefing elucidates a concept-"netwar"-that we mentioned in an earlier paper on "cyberwar" (Arquilla and Ronfeldt, 1993). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
netwar actors, social netwar, transnational criminal organizations, leaderless resistance, tribal form, nonstate actors, network form, information warfare Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This documented briefing elucidates a concept-"netwar"-that we mentioned in an earlier paper on "cyberwar" (Arquilla and Ronfeldt, 1993). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
netwar actors, social netwar, transnational criminal organizations, leaderless resistance, tribal form, nonstate actors, network form, information warfare Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, Roman Empire, Sun Tzu, World War, Saudi Arabia, Committees of Correspondence New!
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