Notes and Recommendations for 16 December 1998: "That's not all. War, on these guys' conception, is now conducted in every aspect of society. Foreign manipulation of the content of American news media, for example, is 'cultural war'. Taken all together, the result is -- and this is their term -- 'total war'. You might have thought that the Soviet Union had fallen, that the United States was by far the greatest military power on earth, that the heavy cloud of the Cold War had lifted, and that it was time for the United States to stand down from its total mobilization, disband the national security state, end the culture of secrecy, reshape the military in some reasonable proportion to its plausible adversaries, and get to work on the rest of society's problems. You might think all of that, but you would be wrong. In the world of the Internet, it would seem, things have only gotten worse. We are now in a world of permanent, total, omnipresent, pervasive war. Cold War plus plus: all war, all the time. They said this."