If you’ve been following this blog you know that I’m writing an undergraduate thesis about the future of asymmetric warfare.
If this is your first time to this blog, I’m writing an undergraduate thesis about the future of asymmetric warfare.
I recently took my research prospectus to my course professor and he loved it- except for one part- the title! After thinking about it for a while, I’ve got to agree with him. The one I’ve got now is pretty clunky.
Here’s what I came up with: GLOBAL CONSPIRACIES OF ONE: ANONYMOUS, ISOLATED, COORDINATED TACTICS.
And here’s what my teacher and I tentatively agreed on in our sit-down: GLOBALLY INDIVIDUALIZED INSURGENCIES: OPERATIONS OF AND AGAINST ANONYMOUS, ISOLATED, COORDINATED AGENTS.
Kind of clunky, huh? Yeah, I’m not too hot on it either. So it’s time for a Wingman NewsWire first: a contest!
If you can come up with a title that:
A: I like
B: My professor likes
C: Describes the work
and finally
D: Isn’t utterly uncool
You’ll be getting a $20 AMAZON.COM GIFT CERTIFICATE. The contest will run until the end of October or until there’s a winner, whichever comes last.
For some more details about the paper, check out these posts.
Parker,
I assume you’ve read Paul Baran’s RAND papers. (If not, tell me - I’ll send them to you - the original nuclear-war-resistant comms system for the air force research).
He uses the word “distributed”
I thought I had only the one word for you - I’m going to print this and play with it on the train and at work. I think I can improve on this title.
Jon
Comment by Jon Soroko 10.03.07 @ 659One other question - are you limiting your thesis to individual - one person-only/ units?
Comment by Jon Soroko 10.03.07 @ 701Hey dude, MOGS from Mad Pigeon. I might be able to help you out a little bit in your work - among other things, I took History of Unconventional Warfare at the Zoo (Hist 363 back then).
Contact me at the hotmail addy above, or get my work address and phone through Pidge after class or something -
I may have some research or at least some authorities on your subject area who teach at Army War College amongst other places.
V/R
MOGS
Comment by MOGS 10.03.07 @ 525@Jon: Good question. What I’m imagining (and I’ll post more on this later) is a network like that described in John Robb’s Brave New War, with the difference that all but a central core of agents are unaware that they ARE agents, or what they are agents of.
@MOGS: Greatly appreciated! I’m not taking the History course, but Colonel W-. of DFMI is offering an MSS Unconventional Warfare class, and I’m slotted for that one next semester. I’m sure discussions in that class will find their way into posts here.
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