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   Wednesday, August 14, 2002

BUFFY THE TERRORIST SLAYER?

This month's "Spoonful of Sugar" award goes to US military analyst Anthony H. Cordesman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He managed to get the mainstream media interested in a frankly-terrifying overview of biological weapon strategy by realizing that those charged with defending us are not unlike TV's Buffy, a young woman who "lives in a world of unpredictable threats." Her attempts to understand and combat the horrors around her, he says, mirror those of the military concerning biological warfare.

Cordesman admits that his approach is "somewhat unusual," but better than the current methods of threat assessment, a statement that is -- again -- frankly terrifying. His fascinating paper, entitled Biological Warfare and the "Buffy Paradigm", is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file at the CSIS site.