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<DIV><SPAN class=630473002-19032011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>May be
of interest (and from the "they would say that wouldn't they"
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: <B
class=gmail_sendername>Steve Cavrak</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:Steve.Cavrak@uvm.edu">Steve.Cavrak@uvm.edu</A>></SPAN><BR>Date:
Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:38 AM<BR>Subject: [Air-L] Coming soon - to each nation
near you, its own internet<BR>To: List Aoir <<A
href="mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org">air-l@listserv.aoir.org</A>><BR><BR><BR>Following
our discussion of the "non-American" internet, twitter limiting the scope of
research, university presses and scholarly publication, and ebook readings,
Google felt encouraged to send me an alert to the following guest editorial from
the Bangkok Post on a proposed Balkanized Internet for the future
...<BR><BR><BR>Coming soon - to each nation, its own internet<BR>Philip J
Cunningham<BR>Bangkok Post<BR>Published: 12/03/2011 at 12:00 AM<BR><A
href="http://j.mp/hHMDoX" target=_blank>http://j.mp/hHMDoX</A><BR>aka<BR><A
href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/226318/coming-soon---to-each-nation-its-own-internet"
target=_blank>http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/226318/coming-soon---to-each-nation-its-own-internet</A><BR><BR>During
this era of incessant online babble, blogs, tweets and cacophonous
concatenations, the internet has become a virtual Tower of Babel, an ambitious,
overloaded unitary structure breaking at the seams. It's only a matter of time
before it crumbles.<BR><BR>That, in a nutshell, is the view put forward by a
group of US military thinkers in the latest issue of Strategic Studies
Quarterly, who see the breaking up and "Balkanisation of the Internet" as
natural as it is inevitable, and not without public benefit, assuming that the
'Net reorganises along traditional, nationalistic
lines.<BR><BR>…<BR><BR>Inspired by the folk wisdom that good fences make good
neighbours, there is a school of thought in the US military that posits a
not-so-distant future in which the worldwide web will be divided up along
national lines.<BR><BR>The Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age, authored by Chris
C Demchak and Peter Dombrowski for the spring 2011 issue of the Strategic
Studies Quarterly argues that the internet at present is too open and too
unguarded. Cyberspace, when compared to the contours of natural space, can be
understood as an under-regulated domain replete with badlands and bandits, a
frontier to be tamed and subdivided.<BR><BR>…<BR><BR><BR>------<BR><BR>Here's
the Journal's TOC for this issue. Each of the articles is available as a
downloadable PDF; comments are invited via email.<BR><BR>SSQ<BR>Strategic
Studies Quarterly<BR>Spring 2011<BR>Air University<BR>Maxwell-Gunter Air Force
Base Montgomery, Alabama<BR><A href="http://www.au.af.mil/au/ssq/"
target=_blank>http://www.au.af.mil/au/ssq/</A><BR><BR>Commentary<BR><BR>The
Future of Things “Cyber”<BR>Gen Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Retired<BR><BR>Part
I<BR><BR>Feature Article<BR><BR>An Air Force Strategic Vision for
2020-2030<BR>Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired<BR>Adam B.
Lowther<BR><BR>Perspectives<BR><BR>Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age<BR>Chris C.
Demchak<BR>Peter Dombrowski<BR><BR>Retaliatory Deterrence in Cyberspace<BR>Eric
Sterner<BR><BR>Perspectives for Cyber Strategists on Law for Cyberwar<BR>Maj Gen
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF, Retired<BR><BR>World Gone Cyber MAD: How “Mutually
Assured Debilitation”<BR>Is the Best Hope for Cyber Deterrence<BR>Matthew D.
Crosston<BR><BR>Nuclear Crisis Management and “Cyberwar”:<BR>Phishing for
Trouble?<BR>Stephen J. Cimbala<BR><BR>Cyberwar as a Confidence Game<BR>Martin C.
Libicki<BR><BR>Book Reviews<BR><BR>Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar<BR>Martin C.
Libicki<BR>Reviewed by: COL Jeffrey L. Caton, USA, Retired<BR><BR>Cyberpower and
National Security<BR>Edited by: Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr, and Larry
K. Wentz<BR>Reviewed by: Col Rizwan Ali, USAF<BR><BR>The Essential Herman Kahn:
In Defense of Thinking<BR>Edited by: Paul Dragos Aligica and Kenneth R.
Weinstein<BR>Reviewed by: Col Joe McCue, USAF,
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<DIV>With Sincerest Best Wishes ,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Gene</DIV>
<DIV>Gene Loeb, Ph.D.</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>