Rethinking war: the mouse's new roar?
Emerging technologies, an unprecedented opportunity to manipulate the global media, and new war strategies have made it easier for small countries to tilt the odds against bigger invading armies and remove the certainty of success that once made aggression profitable. This reality has been brought...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 117; p. 30 |
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Foreign Policy
Winter 1999/2000
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