PublishedSimon & Schuster Uk, March 2016 |
ISBN9781501140839 |
FormatSoftcover, 352 pages |
Dimensions22.9cm × 15.2cm × 1.8cm |
"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 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, 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.
