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This book includes essays about conflict in the information age
that show how the information revolution is altering the nature of
conflict.
This study discusses the opportunities that may be raised by the
emergence of noopolitik - ranging from construction of noosphere to
recommendations.
The information revolution is leading to the rise of network forms
of organization, with unusual implications for how societies are
organized and conflicts are conducted. "Netwar" is an emerging
consequence. The term refers to societal conflict and crime, short
of war, in which the antagonists are organized more as sprawling
"leaderless" networks than as tight-knit hierarchies. Many
terrorists, criminals, fundamentalists, and ethno-nationalists are
developing netwar capabilities. A new generation of revolutionaries
and militant radicals is also emerging, with new doctrines,
strategies, and technologies that support their reliance on network
forms of organization. Netwar may be the dominant mode of societal
conflict in the 21st century. These conclusions are implied by the
evolution of societies, according to a framework presented in this
RAND study. The emergence of netwar raises the need to rethink
strategy and doctrine to conduct counternetwar. Traditional notions
of war and low-intensity conflict as a sequential process based on
massing, maneuvering, and fighting will likely prove inadequate to
cope with nonlinear, swarm-like, information-age conflicts in which
societal and military elements are closely intermingled.
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