Timothy Clack is the Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and co-editor of the Routledge Advances in Defence Studies series.

Robert Johnson is the Director of the Changing Character of War Centre at the University of Oxford, UK.

Foreword Rick Legett Introduction: The world information war Robert Johnson and Timothy Clack Part I: How Did This War Start? 1. A brief history of propaganda: 'a much maligned and misunderstood word' David Welch 2. Homo Digitalis enters the battlefield David Patrikarakos Part II: Truth, Cognition, and Control 3. Democracy and contemporary media: what is the problem? Alexander Prescott-Couch 4. The changing nature of propaganda: coming to terms with influence in conflict Alicia Wanless and Michael Berk 5. 'Does my suffering matter?': Storytelling and the military Oliver Lewis and Chris DeFaria Part III: How Others Fight 6. Women, digital imagery, and the Islamic State: 'guns and roses' Rebecca Fallon and Timothy Clack 7. Social media, computational propaganda, and control in China and beyond Gillian Bolsover 8. Russian information war: construct and purpose Keir Giles Part IV: Policy Response and How to Fight 9. Algorithmic pluralism: media regulation and system resilience in the age of information warfare Damian Tambini 10. Digital propaganda, counterpublics, and the disruption of the public sphere: the Finnish approach to building digital resilience Corneliu Bjola and Krysianna Papadakis 11. Information warfare: theory to practice Robert Johnson 12. Artificial intelligence, security and society Keith Dear Part V: On the Horizon 13. From Beijing bloggers to Whitehall writers: observations on the 'invisible war' Timothy Clack and Louise Selisny 14. War in an age of uncertainty Nigel Inkster