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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
10. The Fuzzy Line; Are We at War?
Authors : Yair Sharan, Ted J. Gordon, Elizabeth Florescu
Published in: Tripping Points on the Roads to Outwit Terror
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The borders between terror and war, between low profile confrontations and full-scale wars are getting fuzzier. Sometimes one leads to the other, sometimes they interfere with each other. In addition, we should envision situations in which we won’t be able to distinguish between natural and man-made events. Uncertain and hidden aggressions became the norm. New technologies put at about everyone’s reach tools that make attacks easier, while identifying them more difficult. Sometimes only the attacker knows a war is going on (consider an epidemic: are people becoming sick from natural or manufactured organisms?) The defender is "blind" and unable to assess the situation. The feeling of malaise of being manipulated or attacked with invisible physical and social technology is everywhere. A paranoiac society..