War in the Smartphone Age

Matthew Ford is Associate Professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, focussing on military innovation and the representation and conduct of war in the twenty-first century. The author of War in the Smartphone Age, Weapon of Choice and co-author of Radical War (all published by Hurst), he was the founding editor of the British Journal for Military History. Having earned his PhD from King’s College London, he has been a visiting scholar at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and a West Point fellow. Currently an associate editor of the European Journal of International Security, he also edits the Technology/Data/War Series for Hurst. He is an associate of the Imperial War Museum Institute in London, an honorary historical consultant to the Royal Armouries in Leeds, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior non-resident fellow at the Global and National Security Institute, University of South Florida.

‘Stands out as a significant and timely contribution to contemporary war studies. Ford demonstrates with clarity and precision that smartphones are not peripheral to modern conflict but central to how it is witnessed, interpreted and increasingly conducted. . . . offers an accessible entry point for general readers interested in how everyday technologies are transforming the character of war.’

• Preface Introduction Part One - The Crises at our Fingertips Chapter 1: Distorting war Chapter 2: Decoding war Part Two - Shaping War Chapter 3: The stack Chapter 4: Kill chains Part Three - The (new) Face of Battle Chapter 5: Participative warfare Chapter 6: Accelerated war Post-script Appendices Appendix 1: a very short history of the smartphone Acknowledgements Bibliography