This is the first of several parts. The first part is a bit grim, but I think accurate. A. Warfare of this century will take at least three forms. (a) The classical battle between opponents in an open death conflict. (b) The terrorist war of subterfuge and secret demolition. (3) The electronic war of information, deceit, and deception. This later new warfare is unlike that of the entire history of humanity. It is disjointed, distanced, disconnected, and distributed in nature. Leaders accustomed to confronting their opponent on the field will be surely defeated. They cannot conceive of a battle without visible personality or at any rate a hidden lethal opponent secreted in a cave. They cannot survive an unknown and unseen and undiscoverable enemy. Such are the enemies of the great powers of the day. Hidden, intelligent, vicious, subtle, disconnected they all are. It is conducted on a twenty-four hour basis, every day, probing, stealing, and disrupting. The
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