Here's a VERY interesting article from the Washington Post by Joel
Garreau about how we can use our knowledge of how networks operate to
dissassemble the terrorist networks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41015-2001Sep16.html
Sample quotes:
There is no precise heart or head that can be targeted, Arquilla says.
Even if you take out an Osama bin Laden, his organization, al Qaeda
("The Base"), still has the resilience of a classic human network. Bin
Laden's, for instance, is made up of an estimated two dozen separate
militant Islamic groups in the Philippines, Lebanon, Egypt, Kashmir,
Algeria, Indonesia and elsewhere, with hundreds of cells, some of them
located in Western Europe and even the United States, as we've
discovered in the past week.
On the other hand, depending on the structure of the network, removing
a few key nodes can sometimes do a lot of good, says Frank Fukuyama,
author of the seminal work "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation
of Prosperity" and now a professor at the School of Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
"Some are so tightly bound to each other that they are not embedded in
other networks. Kill a few nodes, and the whole thing collapses"
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Darryl
Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially
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