Another bloody century

This is a remarkably fine book, in which the Anglo-American war scholar Colin Gray takes an educated guess at what future warfare will be like. 'It is a rule in strategy,' he writes in one of his piquant declarations, 'one derived empirically from the evidence of two and a half millenia, that anything of great strategic importance to one belligerent, for that reason has to be worth attacking by others.' He happens to be speaking of space, and in particular the American communications satellites in earth orbit, but as China's recent hacking of American business sites has demonstrated, the warning is equally true of cyberspace. We depend on the internet more than most: ergo, the internet is a particularly inviting target for China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Al Qaeda, und so weiter. Eminently worth a read. Click here to find it on Amazon. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford