Recommended Reading

Jan 18, 2023

An Approach to Striking Back in Cyberspace

BOOK REVIEW: Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace — and How to Restore It by Lucas Kello / Yale University Press Reviewed by...

Feb 21, 2022

How China is Reweaving Hollywood’s Red Carpet

REVIEW — Much of the world is correctly focused these days on whether the Russian army is about to invade Ukraine and possibly seize Kyiv....

Feb 1, 2022

What Does Intelligence Look Like in the Future?

REVIEW – In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart offers a polished primer on US intelligence for the uninitiated while also posing...

Jan 12, 2022

The Fascination of the Abomination

REVIEW – “The horror! The horror!” murmured Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz as he dies in The Heart of Darkness. Those words and their...

Jan 4, 2022

A CIA Story of Disruption and Overt Success

REVIEW – There are a couple of surefire ways to annoy U.S. officials who worked on counterterrorism issues in the years shortly after...

Nov 29, 2021

Exploring China’s High-Tech Penal Colony

REVIEW — I grew up in a household of second-generation Hungarian immigrants, and though I was born in the 1990s, and out of the immediate...

Oct 19, 2021

A Deeper Understanding of Cyberspace in Peace and War

REVIEW — Cyberspace in Peace and War by Martin C. Libicki, delivers a comprehensive review and analysis of the threats in cyberspace as...

Aug 31, 2021

Does the World Really End This Way?

REVIEW – You may or may not know that zero-day exploits are used to take over, control, or destroy a target system. In her book, This is...

Jun 20, 2021

Reviewing National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution

REVIEW — We live in the age of Dreadnoughts. No, not of battleships, but of astounding leaps of technology, most particularly, Artificial...

Apr 23, 2019

Breaking the Code on Bytes, Bombs and Spies

REVIEW — This collection published by the Brookings Institution Press is a very readable collection of papers which resulted from a...