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

• Main Author: Arquilla, John (auth)
• Other Authors: Ronfeldt, David (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 1997
• Subjects: Digital lifestyle; Terrorism, armed struggle; Military engineering; Technology; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The information revolution--which is as much an organizational as a technological revolution--is transforming the nature of conflict across the spectrum: from open warfare, to terrorism, crime, and even radical social activism. The era of massed field armies is passing, because the new information a...