Idiosyntactix Strategic Arts and Sciences Alliance The Brand Name of the Media Revolution

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Martin Libicki is a Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, where he specializes in the application of information technology to national security and other worldscale applications.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author gratefully acknowledges the very kind help of the following people who provided information for or reviewed and commented on previous versions of this report:

David Alberts, John Alger, Kenneth Allard, Dorothy Denning, Seymour Goodman, Delonnie Henry, Stuart Johnson, Brian McCue, Anthony Oettinger, Capt. Richard O'Neill, Ellin Sarot, Marilyn Z. Wellons.

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