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The First Good Collection on Cyber-war,

April 7, 2000

Alan D. Campen

This book is a very fine compilation, spanning a whole range of technical and non-technical aspects of information warfare, and including my own invited chapter on “Creating a Smart Nation: Information Strategy, Virtual Intelligence, and Information Warfare.” This is a basic text and those in charge of our information warfare segments today would do well to read it again and again because most of them are focusing on one tiny slice of the IW mission, hot bits.

2000/04/072009/11/08

Review: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

3 Star, Information Operations, Information Technology, War & Face of Battle

Good Stuff for Graduate Students,

April 7, 2000

Manuel De Landa

A very early and largely academic-historical-philosophical discussion of the changing nature of the relationships between humans, computers, and war. Written prior to the Silicon Valley explosion, and thus still very concerned about the military dominance of information technology. A good alternative overview.

2000/04/072009/11/08

Review: Silent Warfare–Understanding the World of Intelligence (Intelligence and National Security Library)

Intelligence (Government/Secret), War & Face of Battle

Core reading,

April 7, 2000

Abram N. Shulsky

I rather like this book, and believe it continues to have value as a primer on intelligence for both students and entry-level employees. Most interesting is the distinction that Shulsky, himself a former defense analyst, professional staffer on the Hill, and sometime Pentagon policy wonk, makes between the “Traditional” view of intelligence as “silent warfare”, and the “American” view of intelligence as “strategic analysis.”

2000/03/072009/11/08

Review: The Devil’s Garden

5 Star, Corruption, Executive (Partisan Failure, Reform), Threats (Emerging & Perennial), War & Face of Battle

Reality Hurts–Joint Chiefs Don't Want to Face It,

March 7, 2000

Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters, whom I know professionally, is a modern-day Lawrence of Arabia who has actually walked hundreds of miles through the worst of terrains, and deeply understands–at both a Ph.D. and gutter level, the reality of real war. The Joint Chiefs don't want to face this reality because it bears no resemblance to their nice clean air-conditioned CNN version of war. Devil's Garden is the real thing, and it is also a great novel.

1998/11/092014/03/31

1998 JFQ The Asymmetric Threat: Listening to the Debate

Articles & Chapters, Asymmetric, Cyber, Hacking, Odd War, Complexity & Catastrophe, Complexity & Resilience, Diplomacy, Disaster Relief, Intelligence (Government/Secret), Intelligence (Public), Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class, Strategy, Threats (Emerging & Perennial), War & Face of Battle

FIXED 31 March 2013

PDF (7 Pages): JFQ Asymmetric Threat Steele

“The Asymmetric Threat: Listening to the Debate,” published in the Winter 1998-1999 issue, is a concise summary of the Army Strategy Conference of 1998. Click on the icon below to read the summary of the Army Strategy Conference of 2008, which JFQ has declined to publish.