{"product_id":"dark-territory-the-secret-history-of-cyber-war-9781476763262","title":"Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An important, disturbing, and gripping history\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars--where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie \u003ci\u003eWar Games\u003c\/i\u003e, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, \u003ci\u003eDark Territory\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. Fred 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 reveal the details 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An eye-opening history of our government's efforts to effectively manage our national security in the face of the largely open global communications network established by the World Wide Web....\u003ci\u003eDark Territory\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turner [and] consistently surprising\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaplan, Fred:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Fred Kaplan is the national-security columnist for \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of five previous books, \u003ci\u003eDark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War \u003c\/i\u003e(a Pulitzer Prize finalist and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller), \u003ci\u003e1959, Daydream Believers\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Wizards of Armageddon\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662441189650,"sku":"9781476763262","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7fbbe18a-de13-4b22-bcd5-7cadee90aecf.jpg?v=1733524183","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-territory-the-secret-history-of-cyber-war-9781476763262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}