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A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both at home and abroad. In this landmark book, Roberto J. González gives us a lucid and gripping account of what lies behind the autonomous weapons, robotic systems, predictive modeling software, advanced surveillance programs, and psyops techniques that are transforming the nature of military conflict. González, a cultural anthropologist, takes a critical approach to the techno-utopian view of these advancements and their dubious promise of a less deadly and more efficient warfare. With clear, accessible prose, this book exposes the high-tech underpinnings of contemporary military operations—and the cultural assumptions they're built on. Chapters cover automated battlefield robotics; social scientists' involvement in experimental defense research; the blurred line between political consulting and propaganda in the internet era; and the military's use of big data to craft new counterinsurgency methods based on predicting conflict. González also lays bare the processes by which the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies have quietly joined forces with Big Tech, raising an alarming prospect: that someday Google, Amazon, and other Silicon Valley firms might merge with some of the world's biggest defense contractors. War Virtually takes an unflinching look at an algorithmic future—where new military technologies threaten democratic governance and human survival

Front Cover -- Applications in High Resolution Mass Spectrometry -- Applications in HighResolution Mass Spectrometry: Food Safety and Pesticide Residue Analysis -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 - HRMS: Fundamentals and Basic Concepts -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION (TO HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY) -- 1.1.1 BASIC CONCEPTS (UNITS AND DEFINITIONS) -- 1.1.2 LOW-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY VERSUS HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY -- 1.2 RESOLUTION AND MASS RESOLVING POWER -- 1.3 ACCURATE MASS MEASUREMENT: EXACT MASS AND MASS DEFECT -- 1.4 MASS CALIBRATION IN HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY -- 1.5 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- 2 - HRMS: Hardware and Software -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 PRINCIPLES OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYZERS -- 2.2.1 TIME-OF-FLIGHT -- 2.2.2 FOURIER TRANSFORM ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE -- 2.2.3 ORBITRAP -- 2.3 TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY: INSTRUMENT CONFIGURATION AND MAIN FEATURES -- 2.3.1 STAND-ALONE ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND HYBRID QUADRUPOLE TIME-OF-FLIGHT INSTRUMENTATION -- 2.3.2 IMPROVEMENTS OF CURRENT (QUADRUPOLE) TIME-OF-FLIGHT INSTRUMENTATION -- 2.3.3 ION MOBILITY QUADRUPOLE TIME-OF-FLIGHT -- 2.3.4 HYBRID ION TRAP TIME-OF-FLIGHT -- 2.3.5 GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-QUADRUPOLE TIME-OF-FLIGHT -- 2.4 ORBITRAP ANALYZERS: INSTRUMENT CONFIGURATIONS AND MAIN FEATURES -- 2.5 ACQUISITION MODES IN HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY -- 2.5.1 DATA-DEPENDENT ACQUISITION -- 2.5.2 DATA-INDEPENDENT ACQUISITION -- 2.5.3 POSTACQUISITION APPROACHES -- 2.6 DATABASES AND THE INTERNET RESOURCES FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY -- Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- 3 - Analytical Strategies Used in HRMS -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 ADVANTAGES OF HIGH-RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY IN PESTICIDE ANALYSIS

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Militarizing Culture; Part I: Basic Training; Chapter 1. Spy Camp for Kids; Chapter 2. Shattered Taboo; Part II: Enlisting Culture; Chapter 3. Towards Mercenary Anthropology?; Chapter 4. The Arab Mind and Abu Ghraib; Chapter 5. Human Terrain; Part III: Controlling Behavior; Chapter 6. Counterinsurgency in the Colonies; Chapter 7. Going "Tribal"; Afterword: Decommissioning Culture; Glossary; References; Index; About the Author.

Abstract
This article explores three elements of Laura Nader's work through an ethnographic description and analysis of the author's encounters with her over a thirty-year period. It reflects upon aspects of her ethnographic, political, and ethical commitments, how these elements manifest themselves in her written work, and how they have influenced the projects and careers of her students and colleagues over the past six decades. The piece concludes with an annotated list of aphorisms that have provided counsel, guidance, and inspiration to many anthropologists during the course of her career.