War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age argues that two intimately connected grassroots trends--the rise of insurgencies and the rise of the web--are putting modern armies under huge pressure to adapt new forms of counterinsurgency to new forms of social war. 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 ...
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War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age argues that two intimately connected grassroots trends--the rise of insurgencies and the rise of the web--are putting modern armies under huge pressure to adapt new forms of counterinsurgency to new forms of social war. 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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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 280 p. Contains: Unspecified, Figures. Praeger Security International. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009010466 Type of material Book Personal name Rid, Thomas, 1975-Main title War 2.0: irregular warfare in the information age / Thomas Rid and Marc Hecker Published/Created Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2009. Description ix, 280 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780313364709 (alk. paper) 9780313364716 (ebook) LC classification U240. R54 2009 Related names Hecker, Marc. Contents Wired at war--War 1.0--The United States--The United Kingdom--Israel--War 2.0--Hezbollah--Taliban--Al-Qaeda--Conclusion--Chronology. Subjects Asymmetric warfare--Case studies. Guerrilla warfare--Case studies. Military telecommunication--Case studies. Information technology--Case studies. Digital media--Case studies. Insurgency--Case studies. Counterinsurgency--Case studies. Irregular warfare--Case studies. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index. Dewey class no. 355.02/18
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