Carnage and Connectivity: Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power
David Betz
Abstract
This book examines the disorienting impact on war of the burgeoning connectivity of ideas, people, and things. It argues that the Western perception of warfare has shifted from one of occasional and distant occurrences of well-defined conflicts to a stream of more connected and ill-defined wars and disasters. War in itself has not changed but warfare — “how we fight” — continues to transform. The book focuses on the technological motor of this transformation, of which the putative information age is the latest, aggressive, but not unique phase. The obsessive pursuit by an array of actors in th ... More
Keywords: War, Strategy, Power, Conflict, Security
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780190264857 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190264857.001.0001 |
