The latest tech helped galvanise crowds during the Arab Spring Myriam Abdelaziz/Redux/eyevine
by William Davies, Jonathan Cape by Carl Miller, William Heinemann
IN 2013, few outside Russia had heard of Valery Gerasimov – until he wrote a certain article in a military periodical.
Gerasimov, then recently appointed chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, used the piece to reflect on the so-called Arab Spring and the novel role of social media and smartphones in mobilising crowds. He suspected that a…
