Publication

This monograph lays out the nature of the new media environment in terms of its implications for a war against media-savvy insurgents. The author argues that terrorist attacks are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the western media are present or not. She considers possible courses of action for the US military as they seek to respond to an enemy that has proven enormously adaptive to this new environment and the new type of warfare it enables.