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In Athena's Camp:
Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age


John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, editors

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Foreword: The New Intangibles
Alvin and Heidi Toffler

Chapter
1. A NEW EPOCH--AND SPECTRUM--OF CONFLICT,
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

Part I: The Revolution in Military Affairs

2. CYBERWAR IS COMING!
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

3. PREPARING FOR THE NEXT WAR: REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS,
Stephen J. Blank

4. AN INFORMATION-BASED REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS,
Major Norman C. Davis, USMC

5. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS,
Jeffrey R. Cooper

6. INFORMATION , POWER, AND GRAND STRATEGY: IN ATHENA'S CAMP--SECTION 1,
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

Part II: Information Warfare

7. WARFARE IN THE INFORMATION AGE,
Bruce D. Berkowitz

8. THE SMALL AND THE MANY,
Martin C. Libicki

9. INFORMATION WARFARE: TIME FOR SOME CONSTRUCTIVE SKEPTICISM?
John Rothrock

10. EMERGING CHALLENGE: SECURITY AND SAFETY IN CYBERSPACE,
Richard O. Hundley and Robert H. Anderson

11. AN EXPLORATION OF CYBERSPACE SECURITY R&D INVESTMENT STRATEGIES FOR DARPA,
Robert H. Anderson and Anthony C. Hearn

Part III: Societal Perspectives

12. THE ADVENT OF NETWAR,
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

13. SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS,
Brian Nichiporuk and Carl H. Builder

14. TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY,
Phil Williams

15. RESPONDING TO TERRORISM ACROSS THE TECHNOLOGICAL SPECTRUM,
Bruce Hoffman

16. A COMMENT ON THE ZAPATISTA "NETWAR," David Ronfeldt and Armando Martínez

Part IV: Emerging Paradigms

17. NEOCORTICAL WARFARE? THE ACME OF SKILL,
Richard Szafranski

18. INFORMATION, POWER, AND GRAND STRATEGY: IN ATHENA'S CAMP--SECTION 2,
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

19. LOOKING AHEAD: PREPARING FOR INFORMATION-AGE CONFLICT,
John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

Contributors

The research described in this report was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), under RAND's National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center supported by the OSD, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies, Contract DASW01-95-C-0059. Additional support was provided by RAND using its own research funds.

ISBN: 0-8330-2514-7

About the cover: Athena wearing her war helmet, detail from a 5th-century B.C. statue now in the Louvre.

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