This is the first book to offer a long history of the military strategies, philosophical questions, ethical issues, and political controversies that lead up to the global war on terrorism and the Iraq War.

James Der Derian is Research Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he directs the Innovating GlobalSecurity and Global Media Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies. He has produced numerous books, articles, and documentaries on diplomacy, war, media, and technology, including, most recently, Critical Practices in International Theory (Routledge, 2008)

1. The Tank and the Tortoise 2. Between Wars 3. Global Swarming and the Bosnia Question 4. The Simulation Triangle 5. The Virtual Enemy 6. Virtuous War Comes Home 7. Virtuous War Goes to Hollywood 8. Kosovo and the Virtuous Thereafter 9. A Virtual Theory for the Global Accident 10. After 9/11 11. The Age of Info-Terror 12. Virtuous War and the Desert of the Real