It’s Listed

It seems John Robb’s book is one step closer to your bookshelf. It’s listed here at Amazon. Shloky caught it first. You can’t preorder yet but there is some information there to read. Here’s the description from Amazon.

Book Description
Terrorism has become global, and incredibly complex, because it exists inside a social and economic system that’s become global and complex. Globalization, unfortunately, has planted the seeds of its own destruction. Every new technology for improving the world system, is also a tool for undoing it. The question John Robb is most concerned about boils down to: will terrorism, in the end, be able to destroy the current system? The tragedy of 9/11 represents the pinnacle—and finale—of terrorism the old way. The goal was to inflict psychic damage, and nothing will ever top that—but they don’t need to. Most forward thinking military strategists understand that we’ve entered the age of “fourth generation warfare.” The first three “generations” of strategy revolved around the best way for one state’s large army to inflict massive casualties on the other state’s army. Political scientists are moving away from state against state thinking, to thinking about non-state actors. Our enemies are now much smaller than that: small, ad-hoc bands of like-minded insurgents, organized less like bees in a hive than like the millions of users for Wikipedia, each with its own competing, but complementary agenda.

Read the rest at Amazon and add it to your wishlist.