This paper forms part of our continuing exploration of the diverse characte
r of global liberal governance as a form of global biopolitics. Here we are
concerned to draw attention to the ways in which global biopolitics deploy
s force and violence. We argue that global biopolitics operates as a strate
gic game in which the principle of war is assimilated into the very weft an
d warp of the socio-economic and cultural networks of biopolitical relation
s and that in the process it has been developing a form of biopolitical str
ategic discourse. Biopower is however in the process of moving from the car
ceral to the molecular via the digital. We therefore also observe how a com
mon biophilosophical strategic interest in the initiation and the manipulat
ion of life, seeking to govern it through the laws of connectivity, network
forms of organisation and reproduction, has been engendered by the conflue
nce of the digital and the molecular revolutions. We trace this development
through noting its impact on the biopolitical strategic discourse characte
ristic of the liberal way of war, in particular its current Revolution in M
ilitary Affairs, and how the emergence of network society has been parallel
ed by the emergence of network-centric warfare.