Submission + - War 2.0: Open Source IEDs vs. Platoon Wikis
dasbeh writes: OSS, Wikipedia and other forms of net-based "peer production" can help us understand how modern Guerilla warfare is organized — and what the military must do to win War 2.0. At least, that is the argument of a "Web Special" at Policy Review.
It shows how the internet has shifted the strategic balance in favor of small, decentralized groups that share tactical information, ideology and military doctrine over the web- and how today's insurgents honor such OSS mantras as "release early, release often", "the permanent beta version" and "open standards".
From TFA:
'War's changing character is not only augmented by the emergence of the new media; the way the web and today's communication devices
are used to organize lives also instructs our understanding of how killing is organized'
