| Summary: | Emerging technologies, an unprecedented opportunity to manipulate the global media, and new war strategies have made it easier for small countries to tilt the odds against bigger invading armies and remove the certainty of success that once made aggression profitable. This reality has been brought about, not by the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction or engagement in cyberwarfare as most futurists have suggested, but through the opportunities afforded by globalization and information technology. Increasingly, the secret to victory in war is the ability to utilize advanced information technology, and most of what is required to achieve information superiority in times of war is now on sale in the global marketplace. A sidebar examines whether advanced societies are really all that susceptible to a computer-hacker attack on public utilities and infrastructure.
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