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Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power / David Betz.

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BETZ David

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TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015Description: ix, 261 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9780190264857 (hbk.) :

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Summary: David Betz's book explains the huge and disruptive implications of connectivity for the practice of warfare. The tactical ingenuity of opponents to confound or drop below the treshold of sophisticated weapons systems means war remains the realm of chance and probability. Increasing, though, the conflicts of our time are less contests of arms than wars of hearts and minds conducted on a mass scale through multimedia communications networks. The most pernicious challengers to the status quo are not states but ever more powerful non-state actors.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Mindef Library & Info Centre On-Shelf	355.03 BET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		46707-1001
Book	Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah - Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies Library On-Shelf	355.03 BET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		46707-2001

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index.

David Betz's book explains the huge and disruptive implications of connectivity for the practice of warfare. The tactical ingenuity of opponents to confound or drop below the treshold of sophisticated weapons systems means war remains the realm of chance and probability. Increasing, though, the conflicts of our time are less contests of arms than wars of hearts and minds conducted on a mass scale through multimedia communications networks. The most pernicious challengers to the status quo are not states but ever more powerful non-state actors.

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