Dark Territory The Secret History of Cyber War |
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Author:
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ISBN: | 978-1-4767-6325-5 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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"A consistently eye-opening history...not just a page-turner but consistently surprising." --The New York Times "A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related." --John le Carré As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than
Dark Territory: The Secret History...
More Description "A consistently eye-opening history...not just a page-turner but consistently surprising." --The New York Times
"A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related." --John le Carré
As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.
Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and (more often than people know) fighting--these wars for decades.
From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future.