John arquilla biography
An expert in special operations, unconventional warfare, and international policy, Arquilla has extensive experience advising senior military leaders.
John Arquilla (born ) is an American analyst and academic of international relations....
John Arquilla, PhD
On the history of the Defense Analysis Department...
In the beginning, Defense Analysis has always been about what's next.
That's a conversation that Gordon McCormick and I began in the 1980s when we were both still at the RAND Corporation. From his perspective as someone who is chasing after insurgence in the Andes and from my perspective, as a person who wondered about how technology was going to change the world, we came to the conclusion that irregulars: terrorists, insurgents, transnational criminals, and other kinds of networks, were going to be greatly empowered in the years to come.
Gordon had the idea of creating an educational program around this and to its great credit the Navy, and partly because of the energy of then-commander and later Admiral Bill McRaven, the Navy came to the conclusion that this was a worthy endeavor.
So Gordon and I made our way up to Monterey and we began and we're roughly 30 years into this enterprise.
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