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The 'Gray War' combat zone

The book's thesis is broad. Cyberwar can target both the soft and hard "layers" of the Internet and leverage them separately, or together

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The Wires of War: Technology and global struggle for power

Devangshu Datta
The Wires of War: Technology and global struggle for power
Author: Jacob Helberg
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Price: Rs 595

The “Gray War”: This is how Jacob Helberg labels the conflicts and fractious relationships between Russia, China, North Korea and other autocracies on the one hand, and the world’s democracies and nations with democratic aspirations on the other. The tools of cyberia are the “wires” weaponised to wrest advantage in this geopolitical conflict.  

Two weeks into the Ukraine war 

Mr Helberg’s predictions seem prescient. He is fascinating in much the same way as a good horror film is fascinating, in his exposition of

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