The News Rules of War
Arquilla, John
Foreign Policy, March/April, 2010, pp60-69
"Every day, the US military spends $1.75 billion, much of it on big ships, big guns, and big battalions that are not only not needed to win the wars of the present, but are sure to be the wrong approach to waging the wars of the future. What's missing most of all from the US military's arsenal is a deep understanding of networking, the loose but lively interconnection between people that creates and brings a new kind of collective intelligence, power, and purpose to bear -- for good and ill. US military leaders have not sufficiently grasped that even quite small units -- like a platoon of 50 or so soldiers -- can wield great power when connected to others, especially friendly indigenous forces, and when networking closely with even a handful of attack aircraft."
John Arquilla is professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
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