01323nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001260001200042100001700054245009100071856005900162520096600221022001401187       2024                            d  c2024-071 aMatthew Ford00aFrom innovation to participation: connectivity and the conduct of contemporary warfare  uhttps://academic.oup.com/ia/article/100/4/1531/77104553 aThe war in Ukraine is the first conventional war to ever take place in an entirely connected information ecology. The internet has not been switched off. Mundane smart devices are ubiquitous. Soldiers and ordinary civilians are participating in the conflict in ways that have never previously been possible. This stretches participation beyond the information domain and the kinds of connectivity that shaped conflicts in places like Syria, Tigray and Mali. Now the smartphone is routinely being used by soldiers and civilians alike to geolocate enemy columns, control drones to range find for artillery, and produce and broadcast the damage assessment for online audiences to watch. Surveillance technology already makes it possible to track individual smartphone users. In times of peace these forms of surveillance are curtailed. During a conventional war, however, private organizations and governments have reason to circumvent peacetime legal conventions.  a0020-5850