Cassandra in Oz
Conrad Crane, Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War (Naval Institute Press, 2016)
Summary: The learned and insider account of a historian tasked with developing the famed "counterinsurgency" doctrine employed by the United States during the Iraq surge. Includes thoughtful observations on mosaic war and mosaic peace. Its series of axiomata on the cyber realm is not to be overlooked.
Key Quote: "Counterinsurgency is an operational approach, not a national strategy, but in the strategic vacuum that existed, the manual came to fill that role. The fact that a nation can execute counterinsurgency does not mean it should." - p. 133
Bottom Line: Read this book if you want to learn how a counterinsurgency guru thinks about cyberwar.
