| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future--the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prize--winning security and defense journalist"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-317) and index. |
| Subject |
Cyberterrorism -- United States -- Prevention -- History.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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COMPUTERS -- Security -- Viruses.
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HISTORY -- Military -- General.
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Cyberterrorism -- Prevention.
(OCoLC)fst01905567
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781476763255 (hardback) |
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1476763259 (hardback) |
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9781476763279 (ebook) |
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9781476763262 (trade paper) |
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1476763267 (trade paper) |
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