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To supplement this personal experience, he undertook a program of study examining both historical and contemporary conflicts. From the Second Anglo-Boer War, the exploits of T. E. Lawrence, and the German guerrilla campaign in East Africa, he learned many of the basic principles of guerrilla warfare regarding organization, intelligence, operations,

Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of American-ness.

The Vietnam War and the Failure of Cybernetic Warfare The limits of the centralising cybernetic model were laid bare by the Vietnam War where the most powerful and technologically advanced military in history was held in check by a Third World guerrilla army. James Gibson has perhaps done the most to document the dramatic failure of ‘technowar,’ an

commanders. Daniel Green’s In the Warlords’ Shadow (Green 2017)

The lessons of the various conflicts that Gubbins studied may be found throughout these two works: the centrality of the local population; the collection, protection, and use of intelligence; the necessity of cooperating with conventional forces; and the use of speed, surprise, and escape in carrying out ambush operations.

Robert Rogers led his rangers through unimaginable hardships in the wilderness war in North America. A generation later during the Revolution, Nathanael Greene lost virtually every pitched battle he fought, yet he kept coming at Lord Cornwallis and his Redcoats to distract them and create new and better opportunities for his dispersed guerrilla for

Because information technology has undermined the capacity of centralized authority to project power and provide physical security for systems that operate at a large scale, the optimal size of almost every enterprise in the “natural economy” is falling. To respond to this technological change will entail a massive investment requirement (read oppo

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.