Peter Warren Singer (born 1974) is an American political scientist, an international relations scholar and a specialist on 21st-century warfare. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.
Career Singer is currently a Strategist for the New America Foundation, a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and a founder of Useful Fiction LLC. He has also received the title of a "mad scientist" for the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command. Singer previously worked at the Harvard University Belfer Center, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and was senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he was director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. Singer also served as coordinator of the Defense Policy Task Force for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign as well as contributing editor for Popular Science.
Singer has been named to the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" list by Foreign Policy. Defense News named him one of the 100 most influential people on defense issues. 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. 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.
Singer has provided commentary on technology and military affairs for media outlets including ABC News Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show.
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,P.W. Singer Biography , PWSinger.com the Cyber Citizenship initiative, which seeks to build skills among K-12 students to have greater resilience from online threats of misinformation and disinformation, and the #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship, which support professionals from traditionally underrepresented communities in the field of cybersecurity.
Singer has also worked with a variety of entertainment world projects for Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, and Universal, including the movies Traitor, and Whistleblower, the TV series Strike Back and Curiosity, as well as the 24: Redemption movie/DVD. Singer served as consultant on the bestselling Activision video game series Call of Duty.
Books
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (2003, Cornell University Press, )
Children at War Children at War (2005, Pantheon, )
Wired for War
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin, 2009, )
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014, )
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015, )
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, )
Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, )
Task Force Talon: A Novel of the Army's Next Fight Task Force Talon: A Novel of the Army's Next Fight is an upcoming novel by Singer and August Cole.
See also The Brookings Institution Military use of children
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External links
P.W. Singer Author website
Curriculum vitae Brookings Institution Wired for War book website Video (with audio-only available) of conversation with Singer and John Horgan on Bloggingheads.tv
Interview on Wired for War at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Audio: Peter Singer in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum