David J Betz is Reader in War Studies at King’s College, London, where he heads the Insurgency Research Group in the War Studies Department and is director of MA programmes. He also led the two-year US Department of Defense Minerva-funded project, 'Strategy and the Network Society'. He is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a consultant to the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre at the Ministry of Defence and to the British Army Land Warfare Centre. His most recent book is Carnage and Connectivity: landmarks in the decline of conventional military power.