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The fight for the future makes daily headlines. Its battles are not between
the armies of leading states, nor are its weapons the large, expensive
tanks, planes, and fleets of regular armed forces. Rather, the
combatants come from bomb-making terrorist groups like Osama
bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, drug smuggling cartels like those in Colombia
and Mexico, and militant anarchists like the Black Bloc that ran amok
during the Battle of Seattle. Other protagonists are civil-society activists
fighting for democracy and human rights—from Burma to the
Balkans. What all have in common is that they operate in small, dispersed
units that can deploy nimbly—anywhere, anytime. They know
how to penetrate and disrupt, as well as elude and evade. All feature
network forms of organization, doctrine, strategy, and technology attuned
to the information age. And, from the Intifadah to the drug war,
they are proving very hard to beat; some may actually be winning.
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