Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

摘要

Many books have been published on "cyber" in recent years, many of which leave the reader with the sense that cyber must be important, while never clearly communicating what cyber actually is or what a "cyber warrior" might do all day. Clint Watts's Messing with the Enemy is distinctive in providing an accessible yet detailed account of what Watts and his colleagues did to detect, analyze, and disrupt online two very different adversaries: jihadist terrorist organizations and the Russian government. The book is not technical and does not hide behind buzzwords, nor does it imply that the subject is too classified or too specialized for the reader to understand. The social media world in which Watts works may depend on technology, but ultimately the story in Messing with the Enemy is of very human communication and manipulation. The book is an engaging read and, while it is not a scholarly study, its "operator" perspective fills a niche likely to interest the Naval War College Review audience.