Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

✍ Scribed by Kaplan, Fred

• Book ID: 109095021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 543 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781476763255

✦ Synopsis

"A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related." --John le Carre

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,...