The West Needs to Adapt to the Challenges of Open-Source Warfare
Iraqi insurgents are increasingly powerful because they constantly learn and adapt in the same way that the open-source movement revolutionized software development. Technological might has proved ineffectual in the face of this “open-source warfare,” writes Robert N. Charette in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ online magazine Spectrum.
Since more of these asymmetrical confrontations are expected in the years ahead, the West needs a radical change in strategic thinking and depart from building enormously complex and costly weapons systems.
