iWar
War and Peace in the Information Age

The first half of this book is a pretty good summary of how other nations and non-nation states are deploying modern tools - social media, bots, fake sites, dark web, etc - to fight the war of ideas and information, especially the axis of evil states, Russia, China, and other de facto enemies (Islam......more

New York Times best selling author Bill Gertz's main thesis in this book is that America's enemies, both state and non-state actors, are involved in a sustained information war against the country, and successive US administrations from Bush Senior to Obama have been ill-equipped to handle these att......more

This was a good book to read, especially in light of the many challenges we face as a nation on a daily basis from individual hackers and some state sponsored group trying multiple means of breaking into our infrastructure and trying to steal intellectual property, control SCADA, and manipulate busi......more

This has a lot of useful content on information warfare and America's failings on this new front, albeit steeped in some alarmist stances. It really did open my mind up to problems I didn't really think were issues. The three things I dislike about Gertz's writing: His war hawk nature, his fixation......more

The books does a good job in highlighting cyber security threats and his prediction that more will come. Discusing to great lengths about the Sony Cyber attacks by NK, the Iran-US back and forth attacks and Russia's involvement in US presidential elections 2016. He correctly identifies the importanc......more