Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War - Hardcover

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

"Dark Territory" is a remarkable piece of reporting. Fred Kaplan has illuminated not merely the profound vulnerabilities of our nation to cyber warfare, but why it has taken so long for our policy-makers to translate indifference into concern and concern into action. This is a vitally important book by a meticulous journalist. --Ted Koppel, author of Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath"

A fascinating account of the people and organizations leading the way towards a cyber war future. --Dorothy E. Denning, author of Information Warfare and Security, 1st Inductee, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame"

Praise for Daydream Believers: "

The inside history of our time, told with precision and confidence, by an author who knows where the secrets are kept. --Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco"

Fred Kaplan has long been one of our most incisive thinkers about strategic issues. In this provocative book, he challenges many of our assumptions about the post-9/11 world and offers a dose of realism about the way the world actually works after the end of the Cold War. It s a bracing read. --Walter Isaacson"

Praise for The Wizards of Armageddon: "

[The] definitive intellectual history of early nuclear deterrence. --Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars"

Kaplan dives into a topic which could end up being just as transformational to national security affairs as the nuclear age was. The book opens fast and builds from there, providing insights from research that even professionals directly involved in cyber operations will not have gleaned. . . . You will love this book. --Bob Gourley "CTOvision.com ""

Chilling . . . Kaplan is one of America s leading writers on national security, and his accounts of cyberattacks are gripping . . . assiduously researched. --Edward Lucas "The Times (London) ""

“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.