[MUD-Dev] Online Games Fighting Terrorism

[shren]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Dave Rickey wrote:

-article snip-

> Defense intellectuals such as Linton Wells II, a deputy assistant
> secretary of defense who is responsible for command, control,
> communications and intelligence, believe that the Pentagon must
> realign itself for "network-centric" operations. In their view,
> adversaries such as bin Laden's al Qaeda group are really networks
> -- highly dispersed units that have the same loose but robust
> structure as the nodes of a computer network.
 
> The intellectual groundwork for this "netwar" analysis was laid
> out in a paper published on the Internet in October 2001 by two
> Rand Corp. analysts, David Ronfeldt and John Arquilla. "It takes
> networks to fight networks," they argued. But it has been
> difficult to imagine what these anti-network networks might look
> like.
 
> That's why the massive online games are so intriguing. The ability
> to connect many hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously
> opens the possibility for sharing information, tasking both
> combatants and civilian rescue workers, and "pulsing" adversaries
> with diffuse but well-coordinated counterattacks.

-article snip-

Just more proof that a skilled journalist can ram any two random
topics together.  "Cupcakes and Terrorism, the hidden connection"
will probably be in tomorrow's edition.


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