by David E. Sanger
Sanger, the New York Times national-security correspondent, traces the emergence of cyber conflict from Stuxnet through Russian election interference, arguing that governments deployed offensive code faster than they established doctrine. The book argues that cyberweapons have become the preferred tool of geopolitics precisely because deterrence in the digital domain remains unsolved.
In this collection, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age references 3 other books.
It draws on The Innovators, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and The Master Switch.
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Isaacson's The Innovators supplies the longer computing-history arc against which Sanger traces the militarization of network technologies invented for civilian research
Levy's In the Plex is cited for the Google-China confrontation and Operation Aurora, which Sanger treats as a watershed for corporate-state cyber conflict
Wu's The Master Switch provides the infrastructure-control framework Sanger extends into the cyberweapons era, treating network chokepoints as both vulnerability and offensive target
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