Small Wars, Big Data - The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

"This highly ambitious book unpacks the single biggest foreign policy question of the post-9/11 era--the nature of intrastate conflict. Clearly motivated by a desire to better understand the wars fought by the United States and to improve foreign policy, this book is a must-read for the US military. It will land on undergraduate and graduate course syllabi, win awards, and be discussed outside of academia."--Dan Reiter, author of How Wars End

About the author

Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter & Jacob N. Shapiro
With Vestal McIntyre

Summary

How a new understanding of warfare can help the military fight today's conflicts more effectivelyThe way wars are fought has changed starkly over the past sixty years. International military campaigns used to play out between armies at central fronts. Today's conflicts find major powers facing rebel insurgencies deploying elusive methods, from

Product details

• Authors: Eli Berman, Eli Felter Berman, Berman Eli, Joseph H Felter, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N Shapiro, Jacob N. Shapiro, Shapiro Jacob N.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780691204017
• ISBN: 978-0-691-20401-7
• No. of pages: 408
• Assisted by: Vestal McIntyre
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Geopolitics, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Defence strategy, planning & research, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Military and defence strategy, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science