[MUD-Dev] Online Games Fighting Terrorism

Sean Kelly sean at ffwd.cx
Sat Dec 7 12:48:52 CET 2002


Dave Rickey wrote:

> Herz explains that "as a design and engineering challenge, in
> sheer scale and complexity Star Wars Galaxies rivals the
> construction of a space station."

Quite a compliment :)

> 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.

One of the cool things about Rand is that the publish all their
non-classified material online.  The text of this book is available
by chapter here: http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/


Sean


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