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Overview

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. 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.

Cyber War goes behind the "geek talk" of hackers and computer scientists to explain 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. From the first cyber crisis meeting in the White House a decade ago to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the electrical tunnels under Manhattan, Clarke and coauthor Robert K. Knake trace the rise of the cyber age and profile the unlikely characters and places at the epicenter of the battlefield. They recount the foreign cyber spies who hacked into the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's latest fighter aircraft.

Economically and militarily, Clarke and Knake argue, what we've already lost in the new millennium's cyber battles is tantamount to the Soviet and Chinese theft of our nuclear bomb secrets in the 1940s and 1950s. The possibilities of what we stand to lose in an all-out cyber war -- our individual and national security among them -- are just as chilling. Powerful and convincing, Cyber War begins the critical debate about the next great threat to national security.

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On today's battlefields computers play a major role, controlling targeting systems, relaying critical intelligence information, and managing logistics. And, like their civilian counter-parts, defense computers are susceptible to hacking. In September 2007, Israeli cyber warriors "blinded" Syrian anti-aircraft installations, allowing Israeli planes to bomb a suspected nuclear weapons manufacturing facility (Syrian computers were hacked and reprogrammed to display an empty sky). One of the first known cyber attacks against an independent nation was a Russian DDOS (Deliberate Denial of Service) on Estonia. Since it can rarely be traced directly back to the source, the DDOS has become a common form of attack, with Russia, China, North Korea, the U.S., and virtually every other country in possession of a formidable military having launched low-level DDOS assaults. Analysts across the globe are well aware that any future large-scale conflict will include cyber warfare as part of a combined arms effort. Clarke and Knake argue that today's leaders, though more computer savvy than ever, may still be ignorant of the cyber threats facing their national security.
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“[CYBER WAR] may be the most important book about national-security policy in the last several years.”
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“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.”
Financial Times
“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.”
New York Times Book Review
For AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: “Against All Enemies is too good to be ignored. . . . It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs—it’s a thumping good read.”
Wall Street Journal
“Clarke and Knake are right to sound the alarm.”
Library Journal
Today's global society is totally dependent on the complex communications networks that connect individuals, businesses, and governments. Attacking these networks is relatively easier and cheaper for both governments and terrorists than more overt acts; it could also cause even more widespread and long-lasting damage. Clarke (Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror), who was a White House security adviser to Presidents from Reagan through Clinton, discusses the various points of cyber vulnerability and critiques American efforts to protect its vital infrastructure. An electronic first strike could lead to an uncoordinated retaliation that could rapidly escalate out of control. Governments and companies all over the world are hard at work developing both offensive and defensive software programs, policies, and procedures to deal with this immediate threat, but Clarke wants to encourage more public debate on a topic that has been dominated by the technical experts. He previously wrote a technothriller, Breakpoint, on this very issue. VERDICT On an important subject, this book is written for general readers, although undergraduates could benefit from it as well. However, the lack of both a bibliography and an index (not to mention footnotes) is a serious deficiency.—Daniel K. Blewett, Coll. of DuPage Lib., Glen Ellyn, IL
Michiko Kakutani
In these pages Mr. Clarke uses his insider's knowledge of national security policy to create a harrowing—and persuasive—picture of the cyberthreat the United States faces today.
—The New York Times

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061962233
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/20/2010
  • Pages: 290
  • Sales rank: 85,575
  • Product dimensions: 6.46 (w) x 9.36 (h) x 1.02 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard A. Clarke has served in the White House for President Reagan, for both presidents Bush, and for President Clinton, who appointed him as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism. He teaches at Harvard Kennedy School, consults for ABC News, and is chairman of Good Harbor Consulting.

Table of Contents

1 Trial Runs 1

2 Cyber Warriors 33

3 The Battlespace 69

4 The Defense Fails 103

5 Toward a Defensive Strategy 151

6 How Offensive? 179

7 Cyber Peace 219

8 The Agenda 257

Glossary 281

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  • Posted May 23, 2010

    Cyber Bore

    I bought this book thinking it would be interesting and insightful, but it was just mediocre. Someone with Richard Clarke's experience and access should be able to do better. My chief compliant is that everything was grossly simplified and repetitive.

    Yet, I respect the book's message that the U.S.A. is VERY VULNERABLE to a cyber attack given our 'connected' society & industries. It's the next battlefield.

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  • Posted August 22, 2010

    Cyber Snore

    This book reads as if it was written by a person with an eight grade grasp of cyber security. Yes, the United States is vulnerable to cyber attacks but, despite the grandiose subtitle (The Next Great Threat and What to Do about It), the book offers no useful advise about what to do about cyber warfare. I suspect that is because the two authors are policy wonks who believe that policies and procedures can fix any problem.

    The authors style was annoying on several other counts as well. They repeated the same mantra that we need to protect our elecrical grid (ignoring the fact that we have several such grids, but who would expect a policy wonk to bother to know details>) and the authors rarely passed up a chance to bash former President Bush. Frankly, if Clarke was as annoying and as unknowledgable as this waste of $29.00 suggests, it is no wonder that President Bush did not want him giving advice on what has been a critical topic in Washington for about eight years.

    The most glaring omission in this book is that it contains on realization that the nation needs perhaps 50,000 highly skilled cyber warriors in the public and private sectors but has only about 1,000--and that 1,000 does not include either Mr. Clarke or Mr. Knake--and provides no indication that either of the authors understands that policies will not close the cyber skills gap though it will create jobs for ivy league consultants who only understand a small part of the problem.

    I would suggest anyone who thinks they need to read this book save their time and money and download the Lewis Commission Report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies website. That report is much shorter, much better written, contains ideas concerning how to address the problem, and is free.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 9, 2012

    Chilling thought on how vulnerable US is to cyber attack

    The book is what the author states at the beginning, not a great in-depth examination of either technologies, policy workings or military defense strategy and implementation, but at a level that would be understandable to someone not well versed in any of these areas. Having worked in the telecommunications and data network delivery industry, I can well appreciate the author's view of just how vulnerable to attack many systems are, and their impact on everyday life. Imagine a winter storm that takes down your power lines, and then everything that requires power - and the storm lasts six months. This overview is distressing enough, but how can our government's various components continue to not make a coordinated effort to address it and properly defend our nation from these threats? Oh, sorry, that would be expecting acutal thoughtful and effective action from our political (total-lack-of) leadership.

    This book certainly met its goal, and I will be looking to see more in this area of public policy for (hopefully) greater future success in securing the nation and its infrastructure from attack.

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  • Posted May 31, 2010

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    CYBER WAR... AN EVERY MAN INTRODUCTION

    CYBER WAR

    The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It.

    Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake give us a description of a new tool in warfare. It is an every man's description of the situation. Starting with tricking a missile defense system in a bombing attack to initial initial cyber attacks to cripple a country.

    I hope this wakens the sleeping giant from America's stupor. I am an infrastructure guy... I know the weaknesses of our system... how and where trojan code can be introduced in software systems... to devices down to firmware and chip level. Our systems from banking to air control down to the basic power, gas, water infrastructure is open.

    Let me know what you think...

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