Cyber War - by Richard A Clarke & Robert Knake (Paperback)

About the Book

Author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Against All Enemies," former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict.

Book Synopsis

An essential, eye-opening book about cyberterrorism, cyber war, and the next great threat to our national security.

"Cyber War may be the most important book about national security policy in the last several years." -Slate

Former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict. Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. It explains clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals.

Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive book that offers an insider's view of White House 'Situation Room' operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation's security.

From the Back Cover

Richard A. Clarke warned America once before about the havoc terrorism would wreak on our national security--and he was right. Now he warns us of another threat, silent but equally dangerous. Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. It explains clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, how cyber weapons work, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals. This is the first book about the war of the future--cyber war--and a convincing argument that we may already be in peril of losing it.

Review Quotes

"Clarke gives a valuable insight into the secret wars of the 1990s that erupted into the public view on Sept. 11, 2001, and to the attitudes that shape U.S. policy today. . . . Clarke traces the evolution of radical Islamic terrorist groups and the U.S. responses to them since the 1980s. The history is particularly fascinating in filling in details and background to larger public events throughout the 1990s, a string that almost amounts to a secret war against terror." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"In this chilling and eye-opening book, Clarke and Knake provide a highly detailed yet accessible look at how cyber warfare is being waged and the need to rethink our national security to face this new threat." - Booklist
"[CYBER WAR] may be the most important book about national-security policy in the last several years." - Slate
"Will strengthen Clarke's claims as one of the founding fathers of cybersecurocracy....It is worth buying this book if only for his pithy five-page vision of this coming apocalypse and a return to stone-age conditions within a week, all because of a few pesky hackers and viruses." - Financial Times
"Clarke and Knake are right to sound the alarm." - Wall Street Journal
"Chilling... [A] harrowing -- and persuasive -- picture of the cyberthreat the United States faces today." - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times