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Author: Dennis F. Poindexter
ISBN : 0786472715
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This book is about a cyberwar with China. This new type of war, says the author, is China's effort at bending another country's will to its own. It is clever, broadly applied, successful, and aimed directly at the United States. This war is neither conventional nor accidental. The U.S. military is at a disadvantage because it is part of a system of government that is democratic, decentralized and mostly separated from American businesses. This system has served the country well but is not a path that China sees as worth following. This book is not a "how to" book of strategies that might be developed to fight a cyberwar. It is a way to grasp and categorize what the Chinese are already doing, to make sense of it. Until the U.S. sees itself as in a war, it cannot begin to effectively prosecute it.
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- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: McFarland (March 22, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786472715
- ISBN-13: 978-0786472710
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This is a relatively short book, 181 pages, but it is meticulously researched. And what the author does, time and time again, is give the reader enough information that they can follow up using Google (or Baidu). He painstakingly builds his case to assert that we fight war differently today than what anyone with experience in such things is used to.
He goes on to explain using example after example how China uses the government, military and industry together to systematically achieve their goals to acquire technical information, make it indigenous, and work to improve it. He has a conversational writing style so even though you are exposed to a lot of information, you keep going to the next chapter.
I work in the field of information security and used to work in information warfare, so many of the examples are familiar to me, sort of a scary walk down memory lane, but more than once or twice, he had an example that I had to go research.
Before, I talk about the last chapter, I would like to address who can benefit from this book the most. It should be required reading for anyone with a business that has proprietary information. If you are in a business that is considering a joint venture in China, you should probably have to pass a test on the contents of the book. And since it is so approachable, I think almost anyone can benefit from the book.
Now, the final chapter. Obviously it would be wrong to steal the author's thunder in a review. It was, to be honest a bit disappointing. Like the rest of the book it is well written, well researched, and strongly supported by the rest of the book.
It's said that truth is stranger than fiction, as fiction has to make sense. Had The Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests been written as a spy thriller, it would have been a fascinating novel of international intrigue.
But the book is far from a novel. It's a dense, but well-researched overview of China's cold-war like cyberwar tactics against the US to regain its past historical glory and world dominance.
Author Dennis Poindexter shows that Chinese espionage isn't made up of lone wolves. Rather it's under the directive and long-term planning of the Chinese government and military.
Many people growing up in the 1940's expressed the sentiment "we were poor, but didn't know it". Poindexter argues that we are in a cyberwar with China; but most people are oblivious to it.
Rather than being a polemic against China, Poindexter backs it up with extensive factual research. By the end of the book, the sheer number of guilty pleas by Chinese nationals alone should be a staggering wake-up call.
In February, Mandiant released their groundbreaking report APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units, which focused on APT1, the most prolific Chinese cyber-espionage group that Mandiant tracked. APT1 has conducted a cyber-espionage campaign against a broad range of victims since at least 2006. The report has evidence linking them to China's 2nd Bureau of the People's Liberation Army.
China is using this cyberwar to their supreme advantage and as Poindexter writes on page 1: until we see ourselves in a war, we can't fight it effectively.
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