Fallout Talks 14 with War in the Smartphone Age author - Dr Matthew Ford

Subjects include :
Smartphones and war
Drones
Electronic warfare
War in Ukraine
Democracy under threat

Matthew Ford is an academic focusing on war and the data-saturated battlefields of the 21st century.

Matthew's third book entitled, "War in the Smartphone Age Smartphone" was published by Hurst & Co, London in June and by Oxford University Press, New York in September 2025.

His previous book - Radical War (Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York 2022) - with Professor Andrew Hoskins from Edinburgh University traces war’s data trajectories, from the epicentres of battle out to distant parts of the world, into history, memory and as it is memed into the platforms that mediate digital culture.

Matthew's first book, 'Weapon of Choice - Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation', is an analysis of military innovation and culture and was published by Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York in 2017.

Matthew is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK); an Associate of the IWM Institute; a senior non-resident fellow at the Global and National Security Institute at the University of South Florida; an Honorary Historical Consultant to the Royal Armouries (UK); a former visiting scholar at the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA; a former West Point fellow; and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal for Military History.

Before joining academia, Matthew spent five years working in the City of London for PwC and IBM and was a Strategic Analyst at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, an agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

https://www.fhs.se/sc/profile-page.htmlidentity=400.78d9ed61181920a3a625796c

Bluesky address: https://bsky.app/profile/warmatters.bsky.social
His new book is here

https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/war-in-the-smartphone-age/
https://www.amazon.com/War-Smartphone-Age-Connectivity-Fingertips/dp/0197829848

For context see:
https://fallout.ghost.io/when-the-shi-goes-down-ya-better/

https://fallout.ghost.io/

Fallout is Philip W. Blood, Dustin Du Cane, Ben Skipper - Caring A Lot since 2022. Authors and cover designer of Putin's War, Russian Genocide, Columbia Education Press and Ibidem, 2024.

Our book is at Bezos https://tinyurl.com/yc5c89du
and here
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/putins-war-russian-genocide/9783838218335