Digital war is understood as the ways in which digital technologies and media have transformed how wars are fought, experienced, lived, represented, reported, known, remembered and conceptualised. This is an emerging field composed of many elements whose importance is increasingly recognised in all aspects of contemporary politics, society and culture. Highly sensitive to contemporary developments and interested in ongoing technological changes, the journal will provide a vital and dynamic forum for addressing cutting-edge developments, responding rapidly to new wars and moreover, agenda-setting in the digital environment. The political, social and cultural importance of digital war have increased dramatically, with topics such as drones and cyberwar becoming key contemporary issues, whilst the rise of social media has revolutionized societal communication, impacting on how wars are fought and known and experienced. New developments in information war, such as the secretive Russian campaign against the US and Europe which is currently being uncovered, threaten western electoral processes as well as broader social cohesion, whilst hacking groups of uncertain affiliation continually attack governments, companies and organisations with cyberattacks seeking to damage systems, or exfiltrate sensitive political, economic or military information. New technological developments in simulations, wearable technologies and human augmentation have direct military applications whilst we are already seeing a gradual automatization of weapons systems with the increasing application of A.I. in the military. ‘War’ itself is being transformed today as the traditional legal definitions no longer fit the digital reality we see around us. The aim of this journal is to critically explore what war means today and how it will develop in the future. As using the title 'Digital War' demonstrates, the focus is not to identify a new form of war but an entire emergent research field. Digital War will provide an interdisciplinary forum for cutting-edge analysis of contemporary warfare, unifying researchers and knowledge from media studies, politics and IR, cybersecurity, the military, art, library and information studies, geography, and cultural studies as well as from political and technological commentators. It will be driven ultimately by quality scholarship, but rather than being restricted to publishing exclusive and narrow academic work, it will provoke and welcome a range of interventions and responses, including theoretical, polemical and speculative pieces from experts in their field. The aim is not only to be the intellectual centre of debate around contemporary war but also for emerging technological developments and their implications for the future of and as the leading and radical forum for discussions about developments in conflict.