Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related. John le Carr 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 Prizewinning 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 planningand (more often than people know) fightingthese 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.