Following our discussion of the "non-American" internet, twitter limiting the scope of research, university presses and scholarly publication, and ebook readings, Google felt encouraged to send me an alert to the following guest editorial from the Bangkok Post on a proposed Balkanized Internet for the future ... Coming soon - to each nation, its own internet Philip J Cunningham Bangkok Post Published: 12/03/2011 at 12:00 AM http://j.mp/hHMDoX aka http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/226318/coming-soon---to-each-nati... During this era of incessant online babble, blogs, tweets and cacophonous concatenations, the internet has become a virtual Tower of Babel, an ambitious, overloaded unitary structure breaking at the seams. It's only a matter of time before it crumbles. That, in a nutshell, is the view put forward by a group of US military thinkers in the latest issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly, who see the breaking up and "Balkanisation of the Internet" as natural as it is inevitable, and not without public benefit, assuming that the 'Net reorganises along traditional, nationalistic lines. … Inspired by the folk wisdom that good fences make good neighbours, there is a school of thought in the US military that posits a not-so-distant future in which the worldwide web will be divided up along national lines. The Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age, authored by Chris C Demchak and Peter Dombrowski for the spring 2011 issue of the Strategic Studies Quarterly argues that the internet at present is too open and too unguarded. Cyberspace, when compared to the contours of natural space, can be understood as an under-regulated domain replete with badlands and bandits, a frontier to be tamed and subdivided. … ------ Here's the Journal's TOC for this issue. Each of the articles is available as a downloadable PDF; comments are invited via email. SSQ Strategic Studies Quarterly Spring 2011 Air University Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base Montgomery, Alabama http://www.au.af.mil/au/ssq/ Commentary The Future of Things “Cyber” Gen Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Retired Part I Feature Article An Air Force Strategic Vision for 2020-2030 Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired Adam B. Lowther Perspectives Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age Chris C. Demchak Peter Dombrowski Retaliatory Deterrence in Cyberspace Eric Sterner Perspectives for Cyber Strategists on Law for Cyberwar Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF, Retired World Gone Cyber MAD: How “Mutually Assured Debilitation” Is the Best Hope for Cyber Deterrence Matthew D. Crosston Nuclear Crisis Management and “Cyberwar”: Phishing for Trouble? Stephen J. Cimbala Cyberwar as a Confidence Game Martin C. Libicki Book Reviews Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar Martin C. Libicki Reviewed by: COL Jeffrey L. Caton, USA, Retired Cyberpower and National Security Edited by: Franklin D. Kramer, Stuart H. Starr, and Larry K. Wentz Reviewed by: Col Rizwan Ali, USAF The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking Edited by: Paul Dragos Aligica and Kenneth R. Weinstein Reviewed by: Col Joe McCue, USAF, Retired