[Nettime-bold] A failure of vision?

["Simon Huck" <huck@cyberday.de>]

Terrorist assault against World Trade Center:
A failure of vision?

"Nobody could have imagined such an attack" was an often heard comment in
the days since September 11, 2001. That is a little incorrect: Some experts
developed already years ago scenarios, which even in detail forecasted
possible dimensions of an terrorist attack against the United States. John
Arquilla from Rand Corp., a Santa Monica based think tank mainly sponsored
by United States forces painted a picture how "the great cyberwar of 2002"
could force United States into a war "where the enemy is invisible, the
battles virtual, and the casualties all too real".

But even three captains of United States Air Force were already in autumn
1997 concerned with possible dimensions of an terrorist attack against
Washington D.C. Until recently this text, printed in summer edition of
"Aerospacepower Journal", was available online. Since some days the server
of United States Air Forec University is closed down. Cyberday´s Art Portal
therefore decided to make this important text available.
http://www.cyberday.de/news/ausgabe.php3?news=100028


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