BOOK SHELF
REVIEWS
“ Through a series of vivid vignettes , LikeWar shows how the internet has become a new battlefield in the 21st century , in ways that blur the line between war and peace and make each of us a potential target of postmodern conflict .”
— Francis Fukuyama , author of The End of History , Director of the Center on Democracy , Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University
“ Singer and Brooking have produced a compulsively readable and insightful account of what social media is doing to our democracy and to our relations with each other . If it were fiction , their description of the battleground the Internet has become would be scary . As reality , it is terrifying .”
— Professor Sir David Omand , former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Director of Government Communications Headquarters
“ LikeWar is a magical combination of history , technology , and early warning wrapped in a compelling narrative of how today ’ s information space can threaten the truth , our polity , and our security . It ’ s a page turner , too , chock full of deep insights and fascinating detail . Sun Tzu tells us to know ourselves , our enemy and our battle space and LikeWar delivers on all three .”
— General Michael Hayden , former Director of the CIA and NSA , author of The Assault on Intelligence
“ LikeWar is the best , most comprehensive book to appear on a phenomenon that has turned into the greatest threat to electoral democracy since the 18th Century .”
— Toomas Hendrik Ilves , former President of Estonia , co-chair , World Economic Forum Global Futures Council
and the dark labs where the future of battle is being created .
Meanwhile , they treated the internet itself as a laboratory , leaping into online battles just to experience the fight and see where it would lead . They joined distant nations ’ digital armies and set traps for Russian and Neo-Nazi trolls , both to learn from them and have some fun at their expense . Then , before the book was even out , they found themselves being enlisted into the fight in new ways , asked to advise the investigations trying to figure out how other nations had attacked the United States with these new weapons , as well as aid the US military information operations tasked to fight these wars .
About the Authors
P . W . Singer
Peter Warren Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of multiple award-winning books . He has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation ’ s 100 leading innovators , and by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List . Described in the Wall Street Journal as “ the premier futurist in the national-security environment ,” Dr . Singer is considered one of the world ’ s leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare . He was the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings ’ 101-year history .
Emerson T . Brooking
Emerson T . Brooking is a Washington , DC-based writer and an expert on the relationship between social media and conflict . Most recently , he was Research Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations — the youngest researcher in a generation to receive such an appointment . He has served as an adviser on information warfare to the National Security Council , Joint Staff , and U . S . intelligence community . LikeWar is his first book .
Check out the blurbs and other information at likewarbook . com . It is officially available in the US and Canada on 2 October .
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