In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age

by John Arquilla, David F. Ronfeldt, Alvin Toffler (Foreword)

Essays about conflict in the information age that show how the information revolution is altering the nature of conflict.

Genres: Military Fiction, Nonfiction, History

525 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 1997

Reviews

[:3]

snooze fest

[Mike]

This book is somewhat dated now, as is any book on information warfare really as soon as it's published. Still, the ideas and concerns expressed in this book are very useful and important reading for anyone interested in cyberwarfare and what info-war concerns our nation really needs to worry about.

[John]

nonfiction,information science,computer science,political science

[Mando Escamilla]

Whew.

This book (collection of essays, actually) reads as though it was once really interesting and then someone came along and sucked all the interesting out.

[J.]

An interesting and well selected collection. I especially liked the inclusion of Col. Szafranski's 'Neocortical Warfare? The Acne of Skill.'

[S D]

Great introduction to cyberwar and netwar. Pioneers of their field. Assessments on the role of information in battlespaces & creating new ontologies of conflicts unparalleled in other books.