As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this
new century -- from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq
-- they do so in ways never before seen. Until recently,
information war was but one piece of a puzzle, more than a sideshow
in war but far less than the sum total of the game. Today, however,
we find information war revolutionizing combat, from top to bottom.
Gone are the advantages of fortified positions -- nothing is
impregnable any longer. Gone is the reason to create an
overwhelming mass of troops -- now, troop concentrations merely
present easier targets. Instead, stealth, swarming, and "zapping"
(precision strikes on individuals or equipment) are the order of
the day, based on superior information and lightning-fast
decision-making. In many ways, modern warfare is information
warfare. Bruce Berkowitz's explanation of how information war
revolutionized combat and what it means for our soldiers could not
be better timed. As Western forces wage war against terrorists and
their supporters, in actions large and small, on several
continents, The New Face of War explains how they fight and how
they will win or lose. There are four key dynamics to the new
warfare: asymmetric threats, in which even the strongest armies may
suffer from at least one Achilles' heel; information-technology
competition, in which advantages in computers and communications
are crucial; the race of decision cycles, in which the first
opponent to process and react to information effectively is almost
certain to win; and network organization, in which fluid arrays of
combat forces can spontaneously organize in multiple ways to fight
any given opponent at any time. America's use of networked, elite
ground forces, in combination with precision-guided bombing from
manned and unmanned flyers, turned Afghanistan from a Soviet
graveyard into a lopsided field of American victory. Yet we are not
invulnerable, and the same technology that we used in Kuwait in
1991 is now available to anyone with a credit card and access to
the Internet. Al Qaeda is adept in the new model of war, and has
searched long and hard for weaknesses in our defenses. Will we be
able to stay ahead of its thinking? In Iraq, Saddam's army is in no
position to defeat its enemies -- but could it defend Baghdad? As
the world anxiously considers these and other questions of modern
war, Bruce Berkowitz offers many answers and a framework for
understanding combat that will never again resemble the days of
massive marches on fortress-like positions. The New Face of War is
a crucial guidebook for reading the headlines from across our
troubled planet.
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