Cyber War Will Not Take Place

by Thomas Rid

Book Overview

"Cyber war is coming," announced a land-mark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really coming? Has war indeed entered the fifth domain?

Cyber War Will Not Take Place cuts through the hype and takes a fresh look at cyber security. Thomas Rid argues that the focus on war and winning distracts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199330638
• ISBN13: 9780199330638
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"