CONTENTS: Terms The Rising Tidal Wave Military Competition Quiescent Information Technology Ascendent The Logic of Distributed Intelligence Coordination-and-convergence There Will Be Other Changes The Small and the Many Pop-up Warfare The Mesh Fire-Ant Warfare Platforms Against Fire-Ants Broader Implications Conclusions Toward an Information Corps Rationalizing a Corps Information Warfare Functions of a Corps Objections to a Corps Conclusions Wares of War: Hard and Soft Building Swords from Plowshares Fostering Open Systems Software Strategic Competition Unconventional Conflict Rural Conflict Urban Conflict Net States? The Net and its Discontents From Global Village To Global Villager Ghosts in the Net So What? Conclusions: Mesh Versus Net Epilogue: Detours from the Inevitable Future