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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />

We are deeply grateful for the thoughtful, generous participation of all the authors of<br />

the case studies in this volume: in order of their appearance, Michele Zanini, Sean<br />

Edwards, Phil Williams, John Sullivan, Tiffany Danitz, Warren Strobel, Paul de Armond,<br />

Dorothy Denning, and Luther Gerlach. We are also thankful for the <strong>RAND</strong> managers<br />

who showed interest in this project, Jeff Isaacson and Stuart Johnson, and for the<br />

constructive comments and criticisms provided by the two formal reviewers of the draft<br />

version of this volume, Robert Anderson and Greg Treverton. We also appreciate the<br />

efforts of people who occasionally send us comments or items of information pertaining<br />

to netwar: at <strong>RAND</strong>, Robert Anderson, Kevin McCarthy, James Mulvenon, William<br />

O’Malley, and Willis Ware; outside <strong>RAND</strong>, Stephen Borgatti, Robert Bunker, Steve Cisler,<br />

Harry Cleaver, Peter Monge, Joel Simon, Steven Strogatz, and especially Margarita<br />

Studemeister. A number of individuals in the activist communities also deserve our<br />

thanks, but they would undoubtedly be discomfited by our explicitly acknowledging<br />

them.<br />

Furthermore, we are indebted to Richard O’Neill and other members of the Highlands<br />

Forum (including David Brin, Robert Scott, and Bruce Sterling) for discussions about<br />

netwar that we have had with them over the past several years.<br />

We are also profoundly thankful for the continuing support and guidance provided to us<br />

in the Pentagon by former Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I) Art Money and his<br />

principal deputy, Lin Wells, as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William<br />

Leonard and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Walter, U.S. Army (ret.).<br />

Finally, our heartfelt thanks extend to Christina Pitcher for the splendid effort she put<br />

into editing our manuscript.

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