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Cyber vs Le cyberespace: Which Should You Read?
Two cybersecurity books on Strategy, compared honestly: who each is for, what each does best, and which to read first.
A strategic analysis of cyber conflict as permanent, sub-threshold warfare — and what France and Europe should do about it — by a former senior French strategist and a consultant.
Nouveau domaine de la pensée stratégique
Stéphane Dossé, Olivier Kempf, Christian Malis
A collective volume from a French military-strategic colloquium arguing that cyberspace is a genuine new domain of strategic thought — short, dense, and foundational to the French school.
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Key takeaways
- One of the most substantive French strategy books on cyber as permanent conflict.
- Gergorin is a former head of policy planning at the Quai d'Orsay — the statecraft is first-hand.
- Policy- and doctrine-focused, with concrete recommendations for France and Europe.
- A foundational French collective text framing cyberspace as a strategic domain.
- Multi-author (Dossé, Kempf, Malis and others) from a military-academic colloquium.
- Conceptual and concise — read with Kempf's Introduction à la cyberstratégie for the fuller argument.
How they compare
We rate Cyber higher (4/5 against 3/5 for Le cyberespace). For most readers, that means Cyber is the primary pick and Le cyberespace is a useful follow-up.
Both books target intermediate-level readers, so the choice is about topic, not difficulty.
Cyber and Le cyberespace both cover Strategy, Geopolitics, Nation-State, so reading them in sequence reinforces the same material from different angles.