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A war these days

Gabriella Blum (Harvard): The Individualization of War: From Collectivism to Individualism in the Regulation of Armed Conflicts. Tim Stevens (King's College): Apocalyptic Visions: Cyber War and the Politics of Time. Ashley Deeks (Virginia): The Geography of Cyber Conflict: Through a Glass Darkly. Should we fear attacks triggered by computer? Shashank Joshi reviews Cyber War Will Not Take Place by Thomas Rid. Cyber attacks are America's top security threat — that’s better news than it sounds. Rosa Brooks on why sticks and stones will beat our drones: The persistent dangers of low-tech warfare. After COIN's Waterloo: An interview with Fred Kaplan, author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. Why can't America win a war these days? Inside America's dirty wars: An excerpt from Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill. Uwe Steinhoff reviews Cosmopolitan War by Cecile Fabre.