Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

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"For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist."Slate The counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals 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, inexpensive actionslike sabotaging an oil pipelinethat generate a huge return. He shows how combating the shutdown of the worlds oil, high-tech, and financial markets could cost us the thing weve come to value the mostworldwide economic and cultural integrationand what we must do now to safeguard against this new method of warfare.