Brave New War
John Robb, a counterterrorism expert, explains how the same technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists and criminals to join forces against larger adversaries with relative ease and to carry out small, low-cost actions that yield large returns, such as sabotaging an oil pipeline. He explains how opposing the global shutdown of oil, high-tech, and financial markets might cost us the thing we've grown to love most—global economic and cultural integration—and what we need to do now to protect ourselves from this new kind of warfare.
