Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland [Hardcover]

Anthony H. Cordesman (Author), Justin G. Cordesman (Author)

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Publication Date: November 30, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0275974235 | ISBN-13: 978-0275974237

During the last two decades, the infrastructure of the U.S. economy has undergone a fundamental set of changes. It has steadily increased its reliance on its service sector and high-technology economy. The U.S. has come to depend on computers, electronic data storage and transfers, and highly integrated communications networks. The result is the rapid development of a new form of critical infrastructure--and one that is exceedingly vulnerable to a new family of threats, loosely grouped together as information warfare. This detailed volume examines these threats and the evolving U.S. policy response. After examining the dangers posed by information warfare and efforts at threat assessment, Cordesman considers the growing policy response on the part of various federal agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector. The changing nature of the threats is leading these actors to reassess the role they must play in critical infrastructure protection. Government at all levels, industry, and even friendly and neutral foreign governments are learning that an effective response requires coordination in deterrence, defense, and counterattack.

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ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a military analyst for ABC News. A frequent commentator on National Public Radio, he is the author of numerous books on security issues and has served in a number of senior positions in the US government.

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• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Praeger Publishers (November 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275974235
• ISBN-13: 978-0275974237
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,133,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland (Hardcover)

I made the horrible mistake of buying this book so I could read it anywhere, instead of reading the book at Greenfield online. The book almost immediately started to fall apart because it was so badly bound. If you have a hardcover book, the pages need to be stitched. Instead, this hardcover book was bound as if it were a paperback, so fell apart as I tried to read it. The printing was very poor too. The book is small, so the printing is small and cramped, and looked like it was run off of a copier that was running low on toner. All that, and the book is way overpriced to boot. This book is a waste of money.