The book explores the digital explosion that has swept the battlefield, captured our attention and turned everyone into endless wars.

Ford and Hoskins show how modern war is legitimized, planned, fought, experienced, remembered and forgotten in a continuous and interconnected manner, across digitally saturated fields of perception. Tracing the emerging relationship between data, attention, and the ability to control war, the authors depict the complex digital and human interdependencies that support political violence today.

The authors show how information has become an all-encompassing domain, and the smartphone, not the rifle, has become the main tool for conducting combat operations. A startling reimagining of the 21st century battlefield that breaks down the traditional boundaries between state, society and the military.

Exploring the transformational relationship between war and media, the book provides an insightful analysis of why the battlefields of traditional geopolitics are migrating and mutating into events social networks

Matthew Ford is a senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Sussex, and founding editor of the British Journal of Military History. Andrew Hoskins is Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow and founding editor of the journals Digital Warfare; Memory, Mind and Media and Memory Studies.