(http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/kcchiapasuprising.html)This was the first analysis of the Zapatista uprising which focused on the new and unusually important role being played by the Internet & PeaceNet in the mobilization of support that brought the Mexican government military counterattack to a halt and helped force negotiations. The article was first published in the Italian journal RIFF-RAFF (Padova).
(http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/Chiapas95/cyberwar.html)Originally published in Comparative Strategy, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1993, pp. 141-165, this study by two RAND Corporation analysts identifies the grassroots use of cyberspace for the circulation of struggle as a new arena for national security operations. Although pre-dating the Zapatista uprising it has been widely discussed as a central influence on current State efforts to deal with such struggles. In subsequent monographs The Advent of Netwar (1996) and The Zapatista "Social Netwar" in Mexico (1998) — available from RAND — Arquilla and Ronfeldt DID cite pro-Zapatista Net activity as a primary example of what they call "netwar" and continued their exploration of how the State might deal with it.
(http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp001518/Netwars.html)Partly a response to Arquille & Ronfeldt, partly an attempt to synthesize experience and discussion on the Net, this piece provides an overview of a variety of grassroots uses of the Internet and of the RAND response.
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Prepared by an "assistant for strategic assessment" in the Defense Department's wing on "Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict", this paper evaluates, from within the Pentagon, the dangers of netwar which Arquille & Ronfeldt have been calling to the attention of the State.
(http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/Chiapas95/zaps.html)This piece, written after almost two years of participation in the electronic networks circulating the Zapatista struggles, analyses the experience within the context of both indigneous organizing in Chiapas and self activity in cyberspace. It also examines the emerging responses of the State to such activity including attempts to understand and develop countermeasures to deal with such grassroots electronic mobilization. Written for John Holloway and Eloína Peláez (eds.), Zapatista! Reinventing Revolution in Mexico, London:Pluto Press, 1998, this version was presented at INET96 in Montreal.