How Swarms Work

A western network swarm has escalated a global conflict with Russia to the brink of nuclear conflict.

Let’s dig into how network swarms work.

Swarms all around us

Unbeknownst to most people, we’ve already had lots of experience with network swarms. Over the last few decades, network swarms have emerged in warfare, protests, and politics:

• Guerrillas. We saw them first used to effect by the Iraqi insurgency (I documented this in my book Brave New War). Di…