BRAVE NEW WAR<\/b><\/p>\n
Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by John Robb<\/strong> <\/a>is a book that was really written for two audiences.<\/p>\n The first is the relatively small number of specialists in military affairs, serious students of geopolitics and bloggers who are already avid readers of Robb\u2019s Global Guerillas<\/strong> <\/a>site. For them, Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> is a systematic and footnoted exposition of the theories of conflict and \u201cdangerous ideas\u201d that Robb discusses daily on his blog. They will be entertained and challenged by the same analysis that makes them return again and again to Global Guerillas to debate John Robb and one another.<\/p>\n The second audience is composed of everyone else. Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> is simply going to blow them away.<\/p>\n Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> is a tightly written, fast-paced work on the emergent nature of warfare, conflict global society with a decidedly dystopian take. In a mixture of original ideas and synthesis of the works of other cutting edge \u201cthought leaders\u201d, Robb, a platform designer and former mission commander for USAF Counterterrorism operations, draws analogies from the tech world to explain changes in warfare in the age of globalization. Calling the Iraq War \u201c the modern equivalent of the Spanish Civil War\u201d Robb highlights a robust number of critical concepts in Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> that are, in his view, altering international and subnational conflict, including:<\/p>\n Bazaar of Violence Robb is betting heavily on increasing levels of global instability and systemic breakdown as \u201cfeedback\u201d from global guerillas overloads \u201cthe system\u201d and disrupts globalization. It is this orientation toward discerning the worst-case scenarios and descent into entropy that will raise hackles amongst some readers, though Robb ultimately predicts a strengthening of systemic resilience and a burst of innovation as a result of these tribulations.<\/p>\n Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> is the must read book of 2007.<\/p>\n OTHER REVIEWS:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Haft of The Spear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Simulated Laughter<\/a><\/strong> BRAVE NEW WAR Brave New War by John Robb is a book that was really written for two audiences. The first is the relatively small number of specialists in military affairs, serious students of geopolitics and bloggers who are already avid readers of Robb\u2019s Global Guerillas site. For them, Brave New War is a systematic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,305,304,17,45,303,283,39,270,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-brave-new-war","category-defense","category-global-guerillas","category-iraq","category-john-robb","category-market-states","category-military","category-national-security","category-networks","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Black Swans
Brittle Security
Dynamc Decentralized Resilience
Emergent Intelligence
Fourth Generation Warfare
Guerilla Entrepreneurs
Global Guerillas
Market-States
Minimalist Platforms
Open-Source Warfare
Plausible Promises
Primary Loyalties
Stigmergic Systems
Superempowered Groups
Systempunkt
The Long Tail of Warfare <\/strong>
Urban Takedowns
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Some of these concepts are Robb\u2019s, some belong to others and in Brave New War<\/em><\/strong> you will find citations for figures as diverse as William Lind<\/a>, Chris Anderson<\/a>, Nicholas Nassim Taleb<\/a>, Valdis Krebs<\/a>, Eric S. Raymond<\/a>, Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/a>, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi<\/a>, Philip Bobbitt<\/a>, Moises Naim<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>and David A. Deptula<\/a><\/strong>. One of the great strengths of Brave New War<\/strong> <\/em>is Robb\u2019s capacity as an analyst and theorist to apply the revelations of research into network theory to warfare, and to conceptualize armed political conflict within the framework of platforms and ecosystems. This gives Robb\u2019s arguments a degree of horizontal \u201cinterconnectedness\u201d seldom seen in works on military affairs ( except, as Robb himself points out, in the work of his frequent online sparring partner, Thomas Barnett).<\/p>\n
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Futurejacked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"