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Putin may one day raise so many tensions over Ukraine that unless he does something major he's backed himself into a corner and that's when war, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from

behind the front lines. Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello, welcome to War College. I am your host Matthew Gal. My co-host

Jason Fields is deep behind enemy lines and stuck in a meeting. So I am steering

our leaky ship of mixed metaphors today. Social media has changed the way we live and work.

Most of us are on Facebook, avoiding avoiding our families and there's a good chance

some of our listeners are staring at Twitter right now. It's changed everything, including war.

Here to talk us through how war has changed is journalist and author David Petr Karakos.

His new book, War and 140 characters, how social media is reshaping conflict in the 21st century, is all about this.

David, thank you so much for joining us.

All right, so I think my first experience with kind of what you're talking about here came in 2008

during the Mumbai terror attacks. I remember

learning about that and watching it on TV and learning that both the

the attackers and the victims were using Twitter and Flickr I believe to

kind of coordinate and and help each other out and

also figure out where people were.

And I'm wondering, when did you first realize that something was going on here, that social media was changing warfare itself.

Well, I mean, obviously social media had sort of gradually made its way into my life.

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