Reviews
"LikeWar is a magical combination of history, technology, and early warning wrapped in a compelling narrative of how today's information space can threaten the truth, our polity, and our security. It's a page turner, too, chock full of deep insights and fascinating detail. Sun Tzu tells us to know ourselves, our enemy and our battle space and LikeWar delivers on all three." --General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA, author of The Assault on Intelligence "Online technology has outrun our social intuitions about its power. In vivid prose, Singer and Brooking offer insight into the ways that social media can be used to manipulate beliefs and attitudes for self-serving purposes." --Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the internet, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom "Much as Clausewitz did for conventional war, LikeWar lays out the new 21st century principles of war. Mixing fascinating stories and the front edge of research, it explains the twilight battlegrounds of politics and war on social media--a frightening future where truth is the first casualty, and our fundamental values are deeply at danger. I loved it." --Admiral James Stavridis, US Navy (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO "My films have specialized in realistic horror. LikeWar is scary as hell, as it shows how people can be manipulated online to make our worst fears come true."-- Jason Blum, producer of The Purge and Get Out "Through a series of vivid vignettes, LikeWar shows how the internet has become a new battlefield in the 21st century, in ways that blur the line between war and peace and make each of us a potential target of postmodern conflict." --Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University "The internet has fundamentally reshaped the way humans interact; by extension, it has reshaped the way humans wage war. This book is timely, but the takeaways are timeless." --Ian Bremmer, Founder of the Eurasia Group, and New York Times best-selling author of Us. vs. Them "In LikeWar , Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking incisively document how the use of social media and information operations are fundamentally changing the dynamics of global conflict and competition, while threatening the foundations of democracy. While the 2016 elections showed the power of social media and its manipulation by our adversaries, Singer and Brooking provide a wakeup call to the wider challenges facing us, requiring that all Americans adapt and respond."-- Senator Mark Warner (VA), Ranking Member-Senate Select Committee on Intelligence " LikeWar is the best, most comprehensive book to appear on a phenomenon that has turned into the greatest threat to electoral democracy since the 18th Century."-- Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia, co-chair, World Economic Forum Global Futures Council "Singer and Brooking have produced a compulsively readable and insightful account of what social media is doing to our democracy and to our relations with each other. If it were fiction, their description of the battleground the Internet has become would be scary. As reality, it is terrifying." --Professor Sir David Omand, former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Director of Government Communications Headquarters, "LikeWar is a magical combination of history, technology and early warning wrapped in a compelling narrative of how today's information space can threaten the truth, our polity and our security. It's a page turner, too, chock full of deep insights and fascinating detail. Sun Tzu tells us to know ourselves, our enemy and our battle space and LikeWar delivers on all three." - General Michael Hayden , former Director of the CIA and NSA, author of The Assault on Intelligence "Online technology has outrun our social intuitions about its power. In vivid prose, Singer and Brooking offer insight into the ways that social media can be used to manipulate beliefs and attitudes for self-serving purposes." -- Vint Cerf , co-inventor of the internet, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom "Through a series of vivid vignettes, LIKEWAR shows how the internet has become a new battlefield in the 21st century, in ways that blur the line between war and peace and make each of us a potential target of postmodern conflict." -- Francis Fukuyama , author of THE END OF HISTORY, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University "The internet has fundamentally reshaped the way humans interact; by extension, it has reshaped the way humans wage war. This book is timely, but the takeaways are timeless."-- Ian Bremmer , Founder of the Eurasia Group, and New York Times best-selling author of Us. vs. Them "Singer and Brooking have produced a compulsively readable and insightful account of what social media is doing to our democracy and to our relations with each other. If it were fiction, their description of the battleground the Internet has become would be scary. As reality, it is terrifying." - Professor Sir David Omand , former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Director of Government Communications Headquarters "In LikeWar, Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking incisively document how the use of social media and information operations are fundamentally changing the dynamics of global conflict and competition, while threatening the foundations of democracy. While the 2016 elections showed the power of social media and its manipulation by our adversaries, Singer and Brooking provide a wakeup call to the wider challenges facing us, requiring that all Americans adapt and respond." - Senator Mark Warner (VA), Ranking Member-Senate Select Committee on Intelligence "My films have specialized in realistic horror. LIKEWAR is scary as hell, as it shows how people can be manipulated online to make our worst fears come true." -- Jason Blum , producer of The Purge and Get Out "A timely, urgent look at a world of electronic sheep--and wolves aplenty, too." --Kirkus Reviews, "LikeWar is a magical combination of history, technology, and early warning wrapped in a compelling narrative of how today's information space can threaten the truth, our polity, and our security. It's a page turner, too, chock full of deep insights and fascinating detail. Sun Tzu tells us to know ourselves, our enemy and our battle space and LikeWar delivers on all three." -- General Michael Hayden , former Director of the CIA and NSA, author of The Assault on Intelligence "Online technology has outrun our social intuitions about its power. In vivid prose, Singer and Brooking offer insight into the ways that social media can be used to manipulate beliefs and attitudes for self-serving purposes." -- Vint Cerf , co-inventor of the internet, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom "Through a series of vivid vignettes, LikeWar shows how the internet has become a new battlefield in the 21st century, in ways that blur the line between war and peace and make each of us a potential target of postmodern conflict." -- Francis Fukuyama , author of THE END OF HISTORY, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University "The internet has fundamentally reshaped the way humans interact; by extension, it has reshaped the way humans wage war. This book is timely, but the takeaways are timeless."-- Ian Bremmer , Founder of the Eurasia Group, and New York Times best-selling author of Us. vs. Them "In LikeWar , Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking incisively document how the use of social media and information operations are fundamentally changing the dynamics of global conflict and competition, while threatening the foundations of democracy. While the 2016 elections showed the power of social media and its manipulation by our adversaries, Singer and Brooking provide a wakeup call to the wider challenges facing us, requiring that all Americans adapt and respond." - Senator Mark Warner (VA), Ranking Member-Senate Select Committee on Intelligence "My films have specialized in realistic horror. LikeWar is scary as hell, as it shows how people can be manipulated online to make our worst fears come true." -- Jason Blum , producer of The Purge and Get Out " LikeWar is the best, most comprehensive book to appear on a phenomenon that has turned into the greatest threat to electoral democracy since the 18th Century." -- Toomas Hendrik Ilves , former President of Estonia, co-chair, World Economic Forum Global Futures Council "Singer and Brooking have produced a compulsively readable and insightful account of what social media is doing to our democracy and to our relations with each other. If it were fiction, their description of the battleground the Internet has become would be scary. As reality, it is terrifying." - Professor Sir David Omand , former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Director of Government Communications Headquarters, "Online technology has outrun our social intuitions about its power. In vivid prose, Singer and Brooking offer insight into the ways that social media can be used to manipulate beliefs and attitudes for self-serving purposes." -- Vint Cerf , co-inventor of the internet, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom "Through a series of vivid vignettes, LIKEWAR shows how the internet has become a new battlefield in the 21st century, in ways that blur the line between war and peace and make each of us a potential target of postmodern conflict." -- Francis Fukuyama , author of THE END OF HISTORY, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University "My films have specialized in realistic horror. LIKEWAR is scary as hell, as it shows how people can be manipulated online to make our worst fears come true." -- Jason Blum , producer of The Purge and Get Out "A timely, urgent look at a world of electronic sheep--and wolves aplenty, too." --Kirkus Reviews
