Tea Partiers as open source political movement and open source warfare

Excerpts from Global Guerrillas. Lots more in the full post including how the Republican Party will fight back and try to co-opt it and if it could morph into a real insurgency. Read the whole thing.

The Tea Party movement in the US is an open source political protest. It emerged due to a substantial [...]

Standing orders for insurgencies

John Robb at Global Guerrillas has a comprehensive series on what modern insurgencies need to do to be successful. If some of them sound like what the open source software movement does, well, that’s precisely his point. He calls such insurgencies “open source warfare.”

break networks grow black economies virtualize your organization repetition is more [...]

US Army and open source warfare

They still don’t get it. Even when they know the other side(s) are gaining advantage by using OSW, the US Army, resolutely and with firm determination, makes sure they will not do the same.

It’s like the Army is clanking around in a swamp wearing full armor using voice communication only, looking for something to [...]