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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