We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was 'carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign' to disrupt the democratic process. But as c...

Viviamo nell’era della disinformazione. Agenzie di comunicazione, professionisti dei social media e abilissimi hacker sono l’esercito silenzioso di chi, attraverso divulgazione di fake news e falsificazione di dati, agisce spesso nei lati più oscuri dell’informazione con un unico obiettivo: indebolire la democrazia mettendo in dubbio la sua stessa credibilità. Era il 2016 quando Thomas Rid, tra i massimi esperti di cybersecurity a livello globale, alle porte delle elezioni americane portò ...

Der Politikwissenschaftler Thomas Rid ist sich sicher: Ein Cyberkrieg findet nicht statt. Den bisher dokumentierten Cyberattacken fehlen die zielgerichtete Gewalt gegen Menschen und die brutale Zerstörung, die untrennbar mit einem Krieg verbunden sind. Beruhigt zurücklehnen können wir uns dennoch nicht. Denn Thomas Rid macht auch klar, dass aus dem Cyberspace durchaus reale Gefahren wie Spionage, Sabotage und Subversion drohen. Kenntnisreich und spannend erzählt er von Spionageangriffen, v...

We live in an age of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Even before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was "carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign" to disrupt the democratic process....

"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 from the real challenge of cyberspace: ...

"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 from the real challenge of cyberspace: ...

Vivimos en una época de engaños. Las agencias de espionaje de todo el mundo dedican una gran cantidad de recursos a hackear, filtrar y falsificar datos, a menudo con el objetivo de minar nuestra confianza en la información y debilitar la base misma de la democracia. Thomas Rid, reconocido experto en tecnología y seguridad nacional, fue uno de los primeros en dar la voz de alarma sobre la interferencia en las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses de 2016. Pero, por muy astutas que hayan...

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to...

Vivimos en una época de engaños. Las agencias de espionaje de todo el mundo dedican una gran cantidad de recursos a hackear, filtrar y falsificar datos, a menudo con el objetivo de minar nuestra confianza en la información y debilitar la base misma de la democracia. Thomas Rid, reconocido experto en tecnología y seguridad nacional, fue uno de los primeros en dar la voz de alarma sobre la interferencia en las elecciones presidenciales estadounidenses de 2016. Pero, por muy astutas que hayan...

War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age argues that two intimately connected grassroots trends—the rise of insurgencies and the rise of the web—are putting modern armies under huge pressure to adapt new forms of counterinsurgency to new forms of social war.After the U.S. military—transformed into a lean, lethal, computerized force—faltered in Iraq after 2003, a robust insurgency arose. Counterinsurgency became a social form of war—indeed, the U.S...

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A Crash Course on How to Get Rid of Chiggers Trombiculidae (pronounced /trɒmbɨˈkjuːlɨdiː/) is a family of mites called trombiculid mites (also called berry bugs; harvest mites; red bugs; scrub-itch mites; aoutas; and, in their larval stage, chiggers). The term chigger is often confused with the term jigger , the Chigoe flea. Trombiculidae live in the forests and grasslands and are also found in low, damp areas where vegetation is rank such as woodlands, berry bushes, orchards, al...