The New Ecology of War

Dr. Matthew Ford is an Honorary Historical Consultant to the Royal Armouries (UK), the founding Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal for Military History, a former West Point Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. His research focuses on war and the data-saturated battlefields of the 21st century, and he is the author of numerous articles and other works, including his first book, Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation.

Dr. Andrew Hoskins is an Interdisciplinary Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow in the UK. He is the co-founder of two academic journals, Memory Studies from SAGE and Digital War from Palgrave MacMillan. His research is focused on enhancing an interdisciplinary understanding of how and why human society is being transformed by digital tech and media, and the consequences for forgetting, memory, privacy, security, and the nature, experience and effects of contemporary warfare.

Together Dr. Ford and Dr. Hoskins are the co-authors of the book Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the 21st Century, which is the subject of our conversation today.