David Grondin is Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. His research centers on the US national security state and the transformation of the American ways of war in the digital age, taking on issues of secrecy, surveillance, privacy, and technology, as well as exploring the cinematic and televisual rendition of the national security state. His current solo project addresses US technowar and the militainment complex, while a joint project undertaken with his University of Ottawa colleague, Nisha Shah, focuses on the materiality and (in)visibility of secrecy and surveillance. He is the editor of a special issue in Geopolitics (2011), also published as a book by Routledge in 2012, War Beyond the Battlefield.