TY  - BOOK
AU  - BETZ David
TI  - Carnage and connectivity: landmarks in the decline of conventional military power 
SN  - 9780190264857 (hbk.) :
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - WAR
KW  - MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - MILITARY DOCTRINE
KW  - STRATEGY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-251) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -