Distributed Defense
I got this link from Winds of Change, the blog I was slobbering on a couple posts back. In this post, Caerdroia talks about two of my favorite things. War and Computers. Sad, isn't it? But the article is a very interesting look at how the way we have learned to look at life due to the computer revolution could have a very large and positive influence on how we go about defending our nation - not by voting away all our freedoms, but by sticking to what is at the core of our republic's strength - liberty.
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This country was founded on
This country was founded on the notion that you CAN be too safe. Media makes everything local. So we're scared of everything. The harsh reality is that life is a probability game -- what's going to happen to YOU is something you don't have too much control over. The government needs to game the system to reduce overall risk, instead of attempting maximum defense at every point. You can't win that way.
In a chaotic system you have butterfly effects (local events cause distant events) and damping effects (a well-designed system damps down and localizes chaos). It's all network theory.