Matthew Ford

Dr Matthew Ford is an associate professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University and author of War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips (Hurst, 2025).

Why smartphones warp war

The Secretary of War is the face of America’s campaign against Iran. ‘War is hell, and always will be’, Pete Hegseth said recently. He is relentlessly focused on lethality, and decimating the Iranian military. His critics correctly point out that this isn’t strategic thinking, this is a strategy of tactics. Hegseth’s metrics of success appear