ABSTRACT
This chapter engages arguments and evidence that suggests that developments in both technology and warfare in the ‘information age’ have significant implications for practices of war and the way we think about them. Here it looks particularly at the idea of a ‘Western way of war’, the related discourse and developments associated with the ‘revolution in military affairs’, and the increasing mediation of warfare as a key feature of contemporary conflict. Having established this context, the chapter then goes on to examine ways in which scholars working from various theoretical positions have addressed specific features of contemporary practices and discourses of warfare: virtual war, technostrategic discourse and dataveillance. In closing, the chapter evaluates the current state of critical scholarship on technology and warfare, and questions where this scholarship might go from here.
