Brave New War
The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2008
208 pages
978-1-62045-891-4 (ISBN)
Description
"For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist."
--"Slate"
--"Slate"
The counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals how the same technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists and criminals to join forces against larger adversaries with relative ease and to carry out small, inexpensive actions--like sabotaging an oil pipeline--that generate a huge return. He shows how combating the shutdown of the world's oil, high-tech, and financial markets could cost us the thing we've come to value the most--worldwide economic and cultural integration--and what we must do now to safeguard against this new method of warfare.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by James Fallows
- Preface
- Part I: The Future of War is Now
- 1 The Superempowered Competition
- 2 Disorder on the Doorstep
- 3 A New Strategic Weapon
- Part II: Global Guerrillas
- 4 The Long Tail of Warfare Emerges
- 5 Systems Disruption
- 6 Open-Source Warfare
- Part III: How Globalization will put an End to Globalization
- 7 Guerrilla Entrepreneurs
- 8 Rethinking Security
- 9 A Brittle Security Breakdown
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
