War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age

by Marc Hecker and Thomas Rid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313364702
• ISBN13: 9780313364709
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"