Dark Networks

Abstract

The world today operates in a state of persistent conflict on a sliding scale. The conflicts in question are not traditionally military in nature and often involve nonstate actors. These conflicts present problems for the nation-state, because its historical methods for dealing with conflicts do not work in this case. To manage these conflicts, nation-states and global organizations will have to develop mechanisms to deal with "dark networks." These are networks made up of illicit traffickers, organized crime members, urban gangs, terrorists, pirates, insurgents, and other nefarious characters. The purpose of this paper is to examine the environment that feeds these dark networks, the characters who make up the networks, the networks themselves, and the policy and strategy issues related to defeating dark networks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 23, 2010
Accession Number
ADA518125

Entities

People

  • John D. Manning

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Crime
  • Criminals
  • Department Of Defense
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Education
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Social Media
  • Societies
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Strategic Security Studies