Power to the people : how open technological innovation is arming tomorrow's terrorists /
This path-breaking study is about how ordinary people are gaining the means to be extraordinarily lethal. States are also concentrating their technological power, but their gains lag behind a shift in relative capacity that is already disrupting the role of conventional armed forces. The dispersal o...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the age of lethal empowerment
- Classic models of military innovation : shaped by the nuclear revolution
- The arsenal for anarchy : when and how violent individuals and groups innovate
- Dynamite and the birth of modern terrorism
- How dynamite diffused
- The Kalashnikov and the global wave of insurgencies
- How the Kalashnikov diffused
- Open innovation of mobilization : social media and conquering digital terrain
- Open innovation of reach : from AK-47s to drones, robots, smartphones, and 3-D printing
- An army of one launches many : autonomy and artificial intelligence
- Conclusion : strategy in an age of lethal empowerment.