War 2.0 : Irregular Warfare in the Information Age
| Author | : | Thomas Rid, Marc Hecker |
| Year of Publication | : | 2010 |
| Publisher | : | Pentagon Press |
| ISBN - 13 | : | 9780313364709 |
| Edition | : | First |
| Language | : | English |
| Binding | : | Hardcover |
| Subject | : | Warfare |
About the Book :
After the U.S. military--transformed into a lean, lethal,
computerized force--faltered in Iraq after 2003, a robust insurgency arose.
Counterinsurgency became a social form of war-indeed, the U.S. Army calls it
``armed social work``--in which the local population was the center of gravity
and public opinion at home the critical vulnerability.
War 2.0 traces the contrasting ways in which insurgents and
counterinsurgents have adapted irregular conflict to novel media platforms. It
examines the public affairs policies of the U.S. land forces, the British Army,
and the Israel Defense Forces. Then, it compares the media-related
counterinsurgency methods of these conventional armies with the methods devised
by their irregular adversaries, showing how such organizations as al-Qaeda, the
Taliban, and Hezbollah use the web, not merely to advertise their political
agenda and influence public opinion, but to mobilize a following and put
violent ideas into action.
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