Fallout Talks 3 of 2025 with Dr Matthew Ford and Jomini of the West
Our third video with Ivan Torres, and also with Dr Matthew Ford.
Subjects include grifter war experts (my comment), smartphones, digital battlefields, Ford's books and herring with beer.
Dr Matthew Ford
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" will be published by Hurst & Co, London and Oxford University Press, New York in May 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 an Honorary Historical Consultant to the Royal Armouries (UK), the founding Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal for Military History, a former West Point Fellow and in 2019 was a Visiting Scholar at the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
Ivan Torres is @jominiw.bsky.social and @JominiW at the Musk site, provider of excellent map content covering the ongoing Russo-Ukraine war
His maps are in our book and available on his social media accounts, including @jominiw on the Space Nazi site and https://bsky.app/profile/jominiw.bsky.social on Bluesky!
Lt. col. Ivan Torres was awarded the Silver Star, four Bronze Stars and a Purple heart during his army career, so he's not just a talking head.
Ivan Torres
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Email: ivan.rdarellano@thejanusproject.org , admin@thejanusproject.org