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Title: Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age by Wayne M. Hall ISBN: 1-59114-350-0 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't bother with this!
Comment: You call tell Hall was a military intelligence general; this book reads like a PowerPoint briefing! He displays only a rudimentary understanding of computers and cyberspace, although the discussion clearly fleshed out by outside reading. However, we're unable to follow his research because Hall fails to include a bibliography, although he does provide a short list of references in the endnotes. Hall's expertise does show when he is discussing military and intelligence subjects, but he falters when trying to link these topics to computers. A better text would be James Adams' "The Next World War: Computers Are the Weapons and the Front Line Is Everywhere."
Rating: 5
Summary: Exceptional Contribution
Comment: Stray Voltage provides rare insights into Information Age warfare and its practical prosecution in the physical, cyber, and cerebral domains . . . at a granularity I don't believe any author has achieved to date.
Hall presents Information Age warfare as a form of intellectual combat where the brightest, most cerebrally agile competitor moves to shape the environment, thinking, and practical outcome of his opponent--much like other futurists and military thinkers. But he goes much further. Hall's future battlefield is more than a geographically constrained force, state, or region; it's the here-and-now, day-to-day technical infrastructure delivering knowledge and knowledge advantage. Our opponents are not the seemingly predictable military forces of recent conflicts, but are thinking, adaptive threats maneuvering within the infrastructure, promising to become whatever our security posture is not. His view of the future soldier also defies convention. The future soldier is not simply the high tech-hybrid we see on posters, but a profoundly educated, well-trained cyber-warrior armed with knowledge engines, mining tools, protected infrastructures, and an unequalled capacity to sense, adapt, and act. . . as an individual, and in aggregate.
Exceptional. I gained something new in every chapter.
Stray Voltage deserves a careful read by any seeking to understand and apply Information Age principles in operations, security, and training. Advanced Warfighting and Homeland Defense practitioners probably should read it again within the first year, and annually thereafter. Too bad we can't encrypt the contents. I'm confident our opponents will read it as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Merging brainpower with technology
Comment: Enemies of the U.S. who lack military might and money will use the strategies and tools of asymmetric warfare to win future conflicts: that's the contention of Wayne Michael Hall, a retired general with thirty years of intelligence experience. From potential conflicts prepared for with cyberspace to information superiority and deception, Stray Voltage advises a public and a governmental focus on merging brainpower with technology to meet and master this new threat.
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Title: The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce D. Berkowitz ISBN: 0743212495 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 24 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Asymmetrical Warfare: Today's Challenge to US Military Power by Roger W. Barnett ISBN: 1574885634 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Lessons of Afghanistan: War Fighting, Intelligence, and Force Transformation (Significant Issues Series, Vol 24, No. 4) by Anthony H. Cordesman ISBN: 089206417X Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies Pub. Date: 06 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda by JOHN KEEGAN ISBN: 0375400532 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America by William E. Odom ISBN: 0300099762 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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