This concept explains several things about our efforts to organize into some kind of coherent business organization, based on our existence as a network of people looking for ways to deal with DNS ROOT ISSUES.
We are a network, living in a network (SURPRISE!) and looking like a network. Cheers;-)...\Stef >Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:09:43 -0400 >From: David Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: IP: Disconnect the Dots -- Maybe We Can't Cut Off Terror's Head, > > >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41015-2001Sep16.html > >Disconnect the Dots >Maybe We Can't Cut Off Terror's Head, but We Can Take Out Its Nodes >By Joel Garreau > >Washington Post Staff Writer > >Monday, September 17, 2001; Page C01 > >The essence of this first war of the 21st century is that it's not >like the old ones. >That's why, as $40 billion is voted for the new war on terrorism, >35,000 reservists are called up and two aircraft carrier battle >groups hover near Afghanistan, some warriors and analysts have >questions: > >In the Information Age, they ask, how do you attack, degrade or >destroy a small, shadowy, globally distributed, stateless network of >intensely loyal partisans with few fixed assets or addresses? > >If bombers are not the right hammer for this nail, what is? > >Bombers worked well in wars in which one Industrial Age military >threw steel at another. World War II, for instance, was a matchup of >roughly symmetrical forces. >This is not true today. > >That's why people who think about these things call this new >conflict "asymmetric warfare." The terrorist side is different: >different organization, different methods of attack -- and of >defense. >"It takes a tank to fight a tank. It takes a network to fight a >network," says John Arquilla, senior consultant to the international >security group Rand and co-author of the forthcoming "Networks and >Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime and Militancy." > >He asks: "How do you attack a trust structure -- which is what a >network is? You're not going to do this with Tomahawk missiles or >strategic bombardment." > >"It's a whole new playing field. You're not attacking a nation, but >a network," says Karen Stephenson, who studies everything from >corporations to the U.S. Navy as if they were tribes. Trained as a >chemist and anthropologist, she now teaches at Harvard and the >University of London. "You have to understand what holds those >networks in place, what makes them strong and where the leverage >points are. They're not random connections," she says. > ><snip> > > > >For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
