P. W. SINGER is a strategist at New America and a consultant for the US military, the intelligence community, and Hollywood. He is the author of several best-selling books, including Wired for War and Ghost Fleet. EMERSON T. BROOKING is an expert on conflict and social media. He served most recently as a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and has written for the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Popular Science.
An Amazon Best Book of the Month An Amazon Best Book of the Year (2018) Named by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2018 Featured on NPR, CBSN, MSNBC, PBS, and ABC News Radio, as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Popular Science, Rolling Stone, Forbes, the Atlantic, Wired, Slate, Politico, Gizmodo, Foreign Affairs, Defense One, Vox, the Daily Beast, Adweek, and more LikeWar should be required reading for everyone living in a democracy and all who aspire to.--BookList (starred review) LikeWar is an engaging and startling work. --Vice-Motherboard Excellent... It is a deeply researched page-turner. --Foreign Policy a fantastic read --The LoopCast Fascinating book --CBS News Fascinating --MSNBC Fascinating --Project Ploughshares Favorite book of 2018 --Munich Security Conference an excellent book --American Bar Association Essential reading for anyone interested in how social media has become an important new battlefield in a diverse set of domains and settings. --O'Reilly Media A compelling read... LikeWar...is not a warning about tomorrow's war -- it's a map for those who don't understand how the battlefield has already changed --Washington Post LikeWar: The Weaponisation of Social Media is a book that anyone active in social media should read. That is everyone. --Irish Tech News The stories Singer and Brooking tell and the lessons they teach are fundamental for military leaders at the tactical, operational and strategic levels of war.....a blueprint on how to think, operate and survive in this operational environment. --Army Magazine Consider Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media your must-read book of 2019. Informative, insightful, yet also cautionary. --Chicago Now The most important book of 2018 should be required reading for informed citizens --Named Best Security, Business, and Technology Book of 2018 by OODA-Loop Invigorating...The biggest revelation in Singer and Brooking's work is that the fog of real data, fake news, manipulated bot wars, expensive hashtag battles, planted blogs and real, visceral human outrage are not describing a world that is coming. They are explaining and detailing the realities of the world we already live in. -- The News (Pakistan) ...a thorough and well-written book on how social media is being employed in war and politics. It is an absolutely essential read to understand the nature of today's reality. --EER ...Fantastic. LikeWar includes interviews with everyone from Michael Flynn to Spencer Pratt. It doesn't get better than that for a national security/reality tv-watching nerd like me. --Just Security ....Being ignorant of, and worse yet denying, these real threats to our cohesion as a country and to the global community of citizens, is no longer a choice and every individual, every organization, every country has to decide what role they will play in this battlefield and bears responsibility for the ultimate outcome--No Source