A penetrating critique by the controversial social theorist of the way  governments, the military, and the media have reduced modern warfare to  flickering images on a screen.Written  with his characteristic flair, Virillo’s latest book is a trenchant  denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory  with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside the veil of  hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies wrapped the war, Virillo  demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather  than ethical considerations.  Beneath  the humanitarian rhetoric, Virillo sees a sinister innovation in the  methods of waging war: territorial space is being replaced by orbital  space in which a system of global telesurveillance is linked to the  destructive power of bombers and missiles. Governments, the military  and the media are becoming part of a seamless and self-justifying  process linked by new information and arms technologies.  Passionate and political, Strategy of Deception  is a vital examination not only of the war in Yugoslavia but also what  Virillo calls our “fin-de-si?cle infantilization” in which the reality  of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.

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