"Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, "Twitter wars" produce real-world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the fate of nations. War, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones. P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking tackle the mind-bending questions that arise when war goes online and the online world goes to war."-- Provided by publisher
Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense experts P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking.
Some have claimed that War is too important to be left to the generals, but P.
W. Singer asks What about the business executives? Breaking out of the guns-
for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and
services...
A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield, changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself.
Traces the advent of robotic warfare, revealing its use in the war in Iraq, the latest technological achievements, and the secret Pentagon consultations with top science fiction authors.
"Children at War is the first comprehensive book to examing the growing and global use of children as soldiers." "P. W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists." "Interweaving the voices of child soldiers throughout the book, Singer looks at the ways these children are recruited, abducted, trained, and finally sent off to fight in war-torn hot spots, from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He writes about children who have been indoctrinated to fight U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan; of Iraqi boys between the ages of ten and fifteen who had been trained in military arms and tractics to become Saddam Hussein's Ashbal Saddam (Lion Cubs); of young refugees from Pakistani madrassahs who were recruited to help bring the Taliban to power in the Afghan civil war." Finally, Singer makes clear how the U.S. government and the international community must face this new reality of modern warfare, how those who benefit from the recruitment of children as soldiers must be held accountable, how Western militaries must be prepared to face children in battle, and how rehabilitation programs can undo this horrific phenomenon and turn child soldiers back into children.
An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist
in this gripping techno thriller - and fact-based tour of tomorrow - from the
authors of Ghost Fleet.
Our entire modern way of life fundamentally depends on the Internet. The resultant cybersecurity issues challenge literally everyone. Singer and Friedman provide an easy-to-read yet deeply informative book structured around the driving questions of cybersecurity: how it all works, why it all matters, and what we can do.
An acclaimed technothriller that envisions a high-tech war between America and China--a near-future conflict made all the more chilling by the real-world research that undergirds it.
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the
future in this ground-breaking bookat once a gripping technothriller and a
fact-based tour of tomorrow.
