Terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense:
information and communication technologies have developed to such a
point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks
within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or
not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy no longer
depends on traditional media. This is the "YouTube War." This monograph
methodically lays out the nature of this new environment in terms of its
implications for a war against media-savvy insurgents, and then
considers possible courses of action for the Army and the U.S. military
as they seek to respond to an enemy that has proven enormously adaptive
to this new environment and the new type of warfare it enables.