Wiki at War

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people. WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded “public enemy number one” by some in the United States for posting material on the World Wide Web that concerns airstrikes in Iraq and other sensitive matters. Wiki at War explains why these and other Internet-born initiatives matter and how they affect the future face of war, diplomacy, and domestic politics.
JAMES JAY CARAFANO is deputy director of the Heritage Foundation’s international studies institute and director of its Center for Foreign Policy Studies.