Join students and faculty for a presentation by John Arquilla from the Naval Postgraduate School. His topic: “It takes a network: Insights from the war on terror.” From Arquilla: “In the eighth year of the first great conflict between nations and networks, the nations are finally beginning to realize that only by forming networks of their own have they been able, in some instances, to grapple with their adversaries effectively. But in response, Al-Qaeda and its affiliates have continually redesigned their own networks, complicating the counter-terror effort. This suggests that the fundamental dynamic in security affairs has moved decisively away from the cold war-era arms race in nuclear and other weapons to a new ‘organizational race’ to build networks. It is a race in which the nations aligned against the terror networks are still lagging." This talk is part of the Annenberg Networks Network (ANN) Theory seminar series.

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