I was just pondering Jordan’s response to ISIS and thinking that the world is going to see a lot more non-state warfare in the future. In the same way that people back causes on Kickstarter and get behind things like SOPA. There are reportedly Dutch motorcycle gang members fighting against ISIS and certainly organized groups of Russian citizens fighting in the Ukraine. European citizens are going to the middle east to fight on both sides.

I googled ‘non-state warfare’ to see if it’s an established term but previous uses seem to refer to private military coups in the style o Simon Mann’s attempt in Equatorial Guinea. Perhaps ‘grassroots war’ or ‘citizen warfare’ are more apt. I don’t know what it will be called, but we’re going to see a lot more of it and technology is going to play a large role for sure.