By Fred Kaplan

“An very important, annoying, and gripping heritage” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told tale of the pc scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White apartment policymakers who invent and hire cyber wars—where each kingdom could be a significant energy participant and each hacker a mass destroyer.

In June 1983, President Reagan watched the motion picture War Games, during which unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and requested his most sensible common if the situation was once believable. the final stated it was once. This set in movement the 1st presidential directive on laptop security.

From the 1991 Gulf struggle to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the previous Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, the place cyber conflict performed an important function, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known previous that shines an unsettling gentle on our destiny. Fred Kaplan probes the internal corridors of the nationwide defense company, the beyond-top-secret cyber devices within the Pentagon, the “information struggle” squads of the army companies, and the nationwide defense debates within the White apartment to bare the main points of the officials, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new kind of battle and who've been planning—and (more usually than humans comprehend) fighting—these wars for decades.

“An eye-opening heritage of our government’s efforts to successfully deal with our nationwide safety within the face of the principally open worldwide communications community proven through the area large Web….Dark Territory is a page-turner [and] regularly miraculous” (The big apple Times).

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