Shakarian isn't an unknown in the field of network analysis. The work he did specifically with network shaping to increase fragility was pretty well received (a

Shakarian isn't an unknown in the field of network analysis. The work he did specifically with network shaping to increase fragility was pretty well received (and also an interesting strategic innovation along with the algorithm). With regard to the 297 figure, my guess is that it had a context that didn't make it into the article. His papers are pretty well reasoned and quite upfront about the capabilities of a given process or algorithm or strategy, so I find it unlikely that he's gone all used-car salesman this time around. *Picking nits: the author of the article misspelled Shakarian's name.