Cyber-threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland

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During the last two decades, the infrastructure of the U.S. economy has undergone a fundamental set of changes. It has steadily increased its reliance on its service sector and high-technology economy. The U.S. has come to depend upon computers, electronic data storage and transfers, and highly integrated communications networks. The result is the rapid development of a new form of critical infrastructure--and one that is exceedingly vulnerable to a new family of threats, loosely grouped together as information warfare. This detailed volume examines these threats and the evolving U.S. policy response.

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ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN is Co-Director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a special consultant on military affairs for ABC News. The author of numerous books on international security issues, he has served in senior positions for the secretary of defense, NATO, and the U.S. Senate.