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    I highly recommend listening to this discussion, if you want a good primer for the book War 2.0. –Matt 

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SAIS Hosted Book Discussion on Irregular Warfare With Scholar Thomas Rid on June 1

Thomas Rid, Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations and co-author of the new book War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age; and Andrew Exum, fellow at the Center for a New American Security and founder of the Abu Muqawama blog, discussed Rid’s book on Monday, June 1. Click here to download audio of this event (right-click or ctrl-click and choose “Save As”).

Or listen to the discussion at this link to SAIS here.

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War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information AgeBy Marc Hecker, Thomas Rid

Product Description

War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age argues that two intimately connected trends are putting modern armies under huge pressure to adapt: the rise of insurgencies and the rise of the Web. Both in cyberspace and in warfare, the grassroots public has assumed increasing importance in recent years. After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Web 2.0 rose from the ashes. This newly interactive and participatory form of the Web promotes and enables offline action. Similarly, after Rumsfeld’s attempt to transform the US military into a lean, lethal, computerized force crashed in Iraq in 2003, counterinsurgency rose from the ashes. Counterinsurgency is a social form of war—indeed, the U.S. Army calls it armed social work—in which the local matrix population becomes the center of strategic gravity and public opinion at home the critical vulnerability.

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