P. W. Singer

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An Israeli soldier using a mobile phone near the Gazan-Israeli border, November 2023. Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters.

MundoOriente Próximo

The Israel-Hamas war began in the early hours of Saturday, October 7, when Hamas militants and their affiliates stole over the Gazan-Israeli border by tunnel, truck, and hang glider, killed 1,200 people, and abducted over 200 more. Within minutes, graphic imagery and bombastic propaganda began to flood social media platforms. Each shocking video or post from the ground drew new pairs of eyes, sparked horrified reactions around the world, and created demand for more. A second front in the war had been opened online, transforming physical battles covering a few square miles into a globe-spanning information conflict.

In the days that followed, Israel launched its own bloody retaliation against Hamas; its bombardment of cities in the Gaza Strip killed more than 10,000 Palestinians in the first month.…  Seguir leyendo »

Missiles and drone aircraft on display at an unidentified location in Yemen in a photo released by the Houthi Media Office on Sept. 17. Credit Houthi Media Office, via Reuter

MundoOriente Próximo

It seems like the opening of a techno-thriller novel or (spoiler alert!) a scene from the latest Gerard Butler movie: In the dead of night, a swarm of robotic planes sneaks past a billion-dollar defense system and then takes out one of the world’s most valuable targets in a fiery blast.

But it is no fiction. It is now a technological and political reality.

Much remains uncertain about the raid on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia on Saturday that shut down half the country’s oil output. Saudi officials initially credited the attack to “drones,” with Houthi rebels in Yemen then claiming responsibility.…  Seguir leyendo »

InternacionalTerrorismo Internacional

Imagine if Franklin D. Roosevelt had taken to calling Adolf Hitler the “leader of the National Socialist Aryan patriots” or dubbed Japanese soldiers fighting in World War II as the “defenders of Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.”

To describe the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese Army in terms that incorporated their own propaganda would have been self-defeating. Unfortunately, that is what many American policymakers have been doing by calling terrorists “jihadists” or “jihadis.”

While the State Department recently circulated an internal memo advising foreign service officers to avoid such terms, President Bush, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and members of the news media continue to use them.…  Seguir leyendo »