What if everything around you, every element of your daily life could be weaponized against you and your nation? Space, cyberspace, civil society – all tools and arenas available to the enemy in addition to the traditional domains of warfare. That’s the premise of the new book Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War authored by Jahara “Franky” Matisek and Buddhika Jayamaha. A BETTER PEACE welcomes Franky to the virtual studio to discuss how this concept impacts the nature and character of war. He joins podcast editor Ron Granieri to examine what this all means for policy, planning, recruitment and a host of issues for military and political leaders to consider moving forward.
But I don’t like the fact that the U.S. military and most Western militaries are obsessed with this industrial age mindset and model for the way we train, equip and fight.
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Jahara ‘Franky’ Matisek is the Senior Fellow at the Homeland Defense Institute and is an active duty U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and Senior Pilot serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy and is the Director of Fellows for the Irregular Warfare Initiative. He has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and policy relevant outlets on the topic of modern warfare, strategy, and security force assistance. Franky earned his PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University and his forthcoming book, Old and New Battlespaces: Society, Military Power, and War , describes how sociopolitical-information warfare is leading to the weaponization of everything in society, as every citizen becomes a combatant.
Ron Granieri is an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army War College and the Editor of A BETTER PEACE.
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force or Department of Defense.
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