Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It

by Richard A. Clarke

When the term “cyber war” is used in this book, it refers to actions by a nation-state to penetrate another nation’s computers or networks for the purposes of

causing damage or disruption.

U.S. media reports indicate that the United States has a similar cyber attack system, code-named Senior Suter.

One use of cyber war is to make a conventional (the U.S. military prefers the term “kinetic”) attack easier by disabling the enemy’s defenses. Another use of cyber war is to send propaganda out to demoralize the enemy, distributing e-mails and other Internet media in place of the former practice of dropping pamphlets.