@War

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The spies had come without warning. They plied their craft silently, stealing secrets from the world's most powerful military. They were at work months before anyone noticed their presence. And when American officials finally detected the thieves, they saw it was too late. The damage was done . . .

It could have been the plot of a Tom Clancy thriller: Chinese hackers break into American defence contractors and steal the plans for a new multi-billion dollar fighter jet. In fact, it is just one dispatch from the frontline of a new form of warfare.

Our wars are increasingly being fought online. GCHQ and the NSA gather vast amounts of information from the internet - and do so with the complicity of companies like Google and Facebook. The American military fields teams of hackers who can, and do, launch computer virus attacks against enemy targets. And with the majority of civil infrastructure - things like nuclear power stations, hospitals, airports and banking systems - now run across the internet, the next 9/11 could be a cyber-attack.

Welcome to the modern world of warfare.

Reviews

Chilling . . . extraordinary and urgent - Washington Post

@War is a tour de force of reporting on the past, present, and future of cyber-conflict. It will be required reading both in the Pentagon and among the army of Chinese cyber spies now assaulting American businesses. Hackers, policy makers, and others will find this book both intriguing and alarming; not to mention very well written - Peter Bergen, author of Manhunt

A deep dive into the world of cyberwar and cyberwarriors - LA Times

Author Bio

Shane Harris is the senior national security and intelligence correspondent at The Daily Beast. Previously he was senior writer writer at Foreign Policy magazine. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, the Washington Post, and numerous other publications. He has provided analysis and commentary for CNN, NPR, the BBC, and many other media organizations and radio stations. In 2010 he won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense.