The Weaponisation of Everything

Mark Galeotti's latest book.

I just finished Mark Galeotti’s The Weaponisation of Everything and it’s earned a place on my “must read shelf”, right next to David Ucko’s The Insurgent’s Dilemma, which just arrived there yesterday.

Here’s the table of contents - Galeotti offers an amazingly thorough exploration of all the 21st century conflict stuff that happens “left of boom”. I’ve been swimming in this for years but only articulate some of it. He gave voice to things I’ve known, and I found some things I didn’t know, mostly stuff that’s way above my pay grade, but interesting all the same.

Some of his recommended reading at the end of chapter 9 is already represented on my bookshelf, and each chapter closes with a “Want to know more?” section like this. I have a few more books to wade through, then I think the next will be Nina Jankowicz’s How to Lose the Information War.

The book is great, the steering provided with the “Want to know more?” sections is far better than a wad of footnotes that nobody ever bothers to read, and I really like that this was an absolute torrent of information, but presented in such a fashion that I read it all in just three sittings.