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War Virtually
2022
Overview
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing
technology and data for new kinds of warfare-and why we must
resist. War Virtually is the story of how
scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop
data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home
and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a
lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous
weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced
surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming
the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural
anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian
view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less
deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose,
this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary
military operations-and the cultural assumptions they're built on.
Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists'
involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line
between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era;
and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency
methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the
processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have
quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect:
that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might
merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War
Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic
future-where new military technologies threaten democratic
governance and human survival.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
ISBN
9780520384767, 0520384768, 0520384776, 9780520384774, 0520402170, 9780520402171
