Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy, by
John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt (editors), ISBN: 0-8330-3030-2.

Also available online:

* http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/

Summary from the web page:

The fight for the future is not between the armies of leading states,
nor are its weapons those of traditional armed forces.  Rather, the
combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaeda, or drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia and
Mexico. On the positive side are civil-society activists fighting for
the environment, democracy and human rights. What all have in common
is that they operate in small, dispersed units that can deploy
anywhere, anytime to penetrate and disrupt. They all feature network
forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned to
the information age. And, from the Intifadah to the drug war, they are
proving very hard to beat.

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Contents

Preface
Summary
Acknowledgments

Chapter One: The Advent of Netwar (Revisited) 

Part I: Violence-Prone Netwars 

Chapter Two: The Networking of Terror in the
Information Age 

Chapter Three: Transnational Criminal Networks 

Chapter Four: Gangs, Hooligans, and Anarchists -
The Vanguard of Netwar In the Streets 

Part II: Social Netwars 

Chapter Five: Networking Dissent: Cyber Activists
Use the Internet to Promote Democracy In Burma 

Chapter Six: Emergence and Influence of the
Zapatista Social Netwar 

Chapter Seven: Netwar in the Emerald City: WTO
Protest Strategy and Tactics 

Part III: Once and Future Netwars 

Chapter Eight: Activism, Hacktivism, and
Cyberterrorism: The Internet as a Tool for Influencing
Foreign Policy 

Chapter Nine: the Structure of Social Movements:
Environmental Activism and Its Opponents 

Chapter Ten: What Next for Networks and Netwars? 

Afterword (September 2001): The Sharpening Fight
for the Future

Contributors

About the Authors


Copyright © 2001 RAND 

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