http://www.metafilter.com/tags/open-source-warefare Posts tagged with 'open-source-warefare' at MetaFilter. Fri, 26 May 2006 07:47:00 -0800 Fri, 26 May 2006 07:47:00 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/51860/Validating%2DVan%2DRiper <a href="http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2006-05-24\193.htm">“You are not to use electronic communication or even land lines when communicating.”</a> Remember the <a href="http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,95496,00.html">Millennium Challenge '02</a> wargames (previously discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/19340">here</a>)? To refresh your memory, Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper (ret.), playing the part of the enemy, sank half the American fleet using a host of unconventional tactics including using motorcycle messengers to avoid radio interception. The embarrassed Pentagon game masters restarted the game &amp; forced Van Riper to use more conventional tactics that guaranteed a win by the Good Guys. Well it looks like the Iraqi insurgents have picked up a play from Van Riper's book. Flyers are being distributed throughout Iraq urging fighters to stop using cellphones, landline phones &amp; the Internet for communications because the US Army is intercepting them &amp; tracking down the rebel cells. Score one for <a href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/09/bazaar_dynamics.html">open source warfare</a>. [<a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/">via</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51860 Fri, 26 May 2006 07:47:00 -0800 insurgency intelligence iraq millenium-challenge open-source-warefare van-riper scalefree