Singer has been named to the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list by Foreign Policy.[7]Defense News named him one of the 100 most influential people on defense issues.[8] He also served on the advisory group for Joint Forces Command, helping the U.S. military visualize and plan for the future. In 2015, he was named by Onalytica analysis as one of the ten most influential voices on cybersecurity.[9] In addition to his work on conflict issues, Singer was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.[10]
He is also a founder and organizer of multiple non-profit initiatives. They include the U.S.–Islamic World Forum, a global conference that brings together leaders from across the United States and the Muslim world,[11][12] the Cyber Citizenship initiative, which seeks to build skills among K-12 students to have greater resilience from online threats of misinformation and disinformation,[13] and the #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship,[14] which support professionals from traditionally underrepresented communities in the field of cybersecurity.
His first book, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press, 2003, ISBN0801441145), was the first to explore the new industry of private companies providing military services for hire, an issue that soon became important with the use and abuse of these companies in Iraq.[16] The book was named best book of the year by the American Political Science Association, among the top five international affairs books of the year by the Gelber Prize,[17] and a "top ten summer read" by Businessweek.
Children at War
Singer's next book, Children at War (Pantheon, 2005), explored the rise of another new force in modern warfare, child soldier groups. The book was one of the winners of the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book of the Year Award.[18]
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2009, ISBN9781594201981) is a best-selling book by P. W. Singer. It explores how science fiction has started to play out on modern day battlefields, with robots used more and more in war. Singer's 2009 book tour included stops on NPR's Fresh Air,[19] the Daily Show with Jon Stewart,[20] the opening of the TED conference, the Royal Court of the United Arab Emirates and presentations at 75 venues around the United States.
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War[23][24] (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, ISBN0544142845) is Singer's first novel, co-written with August Cole. The book created the concept of FICINT, short for "Fictional Intelligence." FICINT has been defined by the authors as "a hybrid of narrative and research analysis, designed both to entertain and educate."[25] Using the format of a novel, Ghost Fleet melded nonfiction style research on emerging trends and technology with a fictional exploration of what war at sea, on land, in the air, space, and cyberspace will be like in the future. Publishers Weekly described it: "Tom Clancy fans will relish Singer and Cole's first novel, a chilling vision of what might happen in a world war."[26] The book was subsequently placed on the reading list of organizations ranging from all the US military services to the CIA and Royal Air Force.[27] The US Navy also later named a robotic ship program "Ghost Fleet."[28]
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media[29][30] (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, ISBN9781328695741) is a book by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking. The book examines the history of communications, the rise of open-source intelligence, the failed promise of cyber-utopianism, the advent of internet-based information warfare, and the growing political influence of Silicon Valley. Singer and Brooking identify a new mode of conflict, "LikeWar", in which competing viral phenomena influence the outcome of both military operations and political campaigns.[31] Singer has described "cyberwar" as hacking computer networks and "likewar" as hacking people on them, "where the object is to drive something viral through a mix of likes, shares, and sometimes lies."[32] In a starred review, Booklist described it as, "required reading for everyone living in a democracy and all who aspire to,"[33] while Amazon and Foreign Affairs named it a book of the year.[34]
Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution[35][36] (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, ISBN9781328637239) is the second novel of "useful fiction" by Singer and August Cole. It used the format of a technothriller to share 300 nonfiction insights about the trends of AI and automation and their political, economic, and social effects.[37]
On December 15, 2020, it was announced that a drama based on the novel was in development by CBS with Rideback as the production company and Robert Doherty, Daniel Lin, Lindsey Liberatore, P.W. Singer, and August Cole as executive producers.[38]
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