Iljitsch wrote:
The confusion that the ARPAnet supposedly had a military function stems
from the research done by Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation in the
early to mid 1960s. He proposed high-availability packet switched
network for military command and control.
in case anyone is interested, Baran's work is on-line at
http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/baran.list.html
Scott