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Bruce D. Berkowitz

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Berkowitz presents a coherent argument for how IT has revolutionized warfare over the past 30-40 years

Berkowitz presents a coherent argument for how IT has revolutionized warfare over the past 30-40 years. His book describes how advances in IT have come to affect military strategies ranging from foreign intelligence gathering to tactics employed in combat. He strongly believes "the next wars will be fought not just on battlefields Bruce Berkowitz's book The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century describes how information technology (IT) affects the modern battlefield

Bruce Berkowitz's explanation of how information war revolutionized combat and what it means for our soldiers could .

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Chapter 1: The New Terrain. Of all the books currently coming out about modern warfare, THE NEW FACE OF WAR by Bruce Berkowitz is conceptual and pragmatic more than political and personal.

Chapter 1: The New Terrain. The next wars will be fought not just on battlefields but also in the world's computers and communications systems. The combatants will often be familiar military powers - like China, France, and Russia - but there will be others, including underestimated military powers, like India; presumed allies, like Israel; and countries that hardly seem to have any military capability at all, like the Philippines.

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As Western forces wage war against terrorists and their supporters, in actions large and small, on several continents, The New Face of War explains how they fight and how they will win or lose.

In THE NEW FACE OF WAR, former CIA analyst and senior defence consultant at RAND, Bruce Berkowitz paints a sobering picture of warfare in the information age. From the amorphous 'front lines' of this war, Berkowitz defines and identifies the new enemies.

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Berkowitz, Bruce D. The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century. David Berkowitz was one of the most feared killers in New York City in the 1970's. His crimes caused the death of six people, and the injuries to seven others. New York, NY: The Free Press, 2003. His crimes became legendary because of the bizarre content in the letters that he wrote to the police and the media and his reasons for committing the attacks. David Berkowitz, better known as Son of Sam, is a man with a troubled childhood and upbringing.

Articulating a view that is increasingly common in the hallways of the Pentagon, if not in the streets of Baghdad or the mountains of the Afghan-Pakistan border region, Berkowitz (of the Hoover Institution at Stanford U.) argues that information technology has become the most important aspect of warfare and the deciding factor in military outcomes. Writing for a general audience, he explains how communication networks, global positioning satellites, rates-of-decision cycles, small special operations teams, and "cyberwar" are expected by some military thinkers to be important facets of military conflict in the present and near future. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Of all the books currently coming out about modern warfare, THE NEW FACE OF WAR by Bruce Berkowitz is conceptual and pragmatic more than political and personal. Its focus is on the vital role of information and communications, and he makes a cogent case for the primary importance of information in modern warfare by showing the evolving role of both in war, as well as the evolving nature of war, before zeroing in on the present. Not clogged with technical jargon, yet cogent, this book is excellent though being three years old, some of his final conclusions about modern information warfare may no longer hold true.

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At the risk of being repetitive, I too will comment on the fact that the title of the book and the dust jacket description seem to be two to three steps removed from the actual writings of the author. Now it could be that I had an unfair expectation, but I expected the book to focus more on how the military uses the new technology available to it to fight wars. I was looking for detailed explanations about how a military unit goes into to battle and fights. With this said the book offered more of a last 50 years review of how technology has changed the way we plan for war, build and buy weapons systems, and overall espionage. An interested topic, but not one that was advertised.

I do not read a vast number of these types of books so the rather high level review of many of the topics was enough for me. I can see how if you are well read on the topic and / or work in the fields discussed, this book could come across as light weight, but for a novice it was an interesting review of the topic. The author has a nice light and easy writing style that keeps the reader interested during some entertainingly dangerous technical discussions. I also really liked the side stories the author peppered through the book about topics as diverse as how this computer was designed or how this bit of espionage trick was created. I also picked up on a sense of humor that could be described as being influenced by Star Trek conventions and Dilbert books. Overall I enjoyed the book. I was disappointed at the misrepresentation of the title and could have done with some more detail, but overall it was an interesting easy book to read.

Tantil

After reading many books on future warfare, Fourth Generation Warfare, Information Warfare and so on (all of them were disappointing to say the least) and after trying my luck with Berkowitz's "The New Face of War" (which is half examples from the past and half simplistic theories about the future) I think it's time to cease looking for credible predictions of the war of the future, since every theory I have read is hopefully outdated the next year! Operations in Iraq proved some things about the value of achieving information dominance but the insurgency that followed proved also that the nature of war has not changed and that high tech information networks are scrap against a determined and cunning enemy. Even a conventional war against a first rate power (like China) is not clear how will be decided nor is the role of information warfare clear. Experience has shown that predictions in these fields are bound to be proved wrong in almost every case because there is the human factor, political considerations and pure luck which overturn everything along the way. Thus, I would not recommend this book to any serious student of war. It's far better to spend time studying military history which contains a wealth of informative examples and simply guess about the future.

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This book is an attempt to look at the modern military, and how wars will, and should, be fought in the future. The idea is to show how wars can be won cheaply, both in lives and in money, and what we need to do in advance to make these things happen.

Warfare is changing, as everyone knows. Technology has moved with what seems to be ever-increasing speed, but it's driven weaponry in somewhat unexpected directions. For instance, while nations who participated in the Second World War introduced new tanks at a prodigious rate during the war, and the various Cold War competitors redesigned these vehicles pretty regularly during that period, the United States hasn't had a new tank in about 25 years now: and ours is typically pointed out as the superior tank, in spite of this.

What is changing, however, is the technology of information. Nowadays, instead of trying to hit a tank with many bombs or artillery shells, the United States has the capability to use various "smart" munitions which can hit the target from hundreds, even thousands of miles away. This means that the technology level of the target is less important: if it gets killed by a smart bomb, who cares how advanced it *was*?

Warfare, then, has transformed from a contest of things like rates of fire, blast radius, and fatigue, to one regarding things like satellite uplinks, reaction times, and global positioning systems. This is the central point of Berkowitz's book: as things change, we need to be paying attention to what warfare has become, not what it was.

The author seems to think that some of this has been covered by the Pentagon, but some of it hasn't. Especially in the area of internet security, he believes the military needs to coordinate much better with the private sector to make sure that our systems aren't disrupted at exactly the wrong moment by our enemies. This is the one thing in the book he pretty clearly advocates.

The book is sprinkled with interesting and amusing anecdotes, connecting Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the modern torpedo, with the movie the Sound of Music, for instance, and explaining how Robert Ballard, the guy who found the Titanic, also worked looking for sunken subs with his robot submersibles. This makes the subject of the book rather more easy to digest than otherwise. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject, except perhaps someone already very knowledgeable on it.

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