"The future of warfare in Africa is going to be an odd mixture of odd tactics from the 1970s and new technology like drones, with less boots on the ground, " said Mr. Carstens, who serves as a country manager in Somalia for Bancroft Global Development, a privatefirm that helps train the nation's military forces.
This vision from 1999 reads like an outline of the report published last month by Mandiant, a private-security firm, about "Unit 61398, " a Shanghai-based Chinese military team that since 2006 has mounted cyber assaults to steal terabytes of codes and other information from U.S. assets.