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Evan Rosenfield
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...


Bill Harlow
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....


Brian Fitzgerald
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...


James Lawler
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...


Bill Harlow
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...


Terence Check
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...


Daniel Hoffman
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...


Christopher Gallup
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...


W. Renn Gade
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...

George M. Moore
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...
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