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- From: padgett@tccslr.dnet.mmc.com (A. Padgett Peterson)
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- Subject: Interesting Book
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:54:00 GMT
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- Over the holidays took a much-needed rest (family went to visit
- cousins in Scotland & I was permitted to stay home 8*) & caught up on
- some reading. One of the more interesting ones was *War in 2020* by
- Ralph Peters.
-
- Published in March of 1991 it missed the breakup of the Soviet Union
- though the afterward makes it clear that the author was not surprised.
-
- An interesting sub-plot developed late in the book was that high-tech
- weaponry takes humans out of the tactical loop and relegates them to
- strategic decisions. Further, if you can remove trust in the weapons
- (virus etc.) you can destroy an adversary's capability to defend
- himself.
-
- Somewhere in the last few years we seem to have lost Heinlein's "tell
- me three times" concept for trust and IMHO much of our difficulties
- today stem from this.
- Philosophically,
-
- Padgett
-
- ps In a modern PC disk information is stored in the CMOS, Partition Table
- and the DOS Boot Record. The code is trivial and given any two, the
- third can be easily reconstructed.
-