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La cyberstratégie russe vs Le cyberespace: Which Should You Read?
Two cybersecurity books on Geopolitics, compared honestly: who each is for, what each does best, and which to read first.
A focused study of Russia's approach to cyberspace — doctrine, actors and information warfare — one of the few French-language books dedicated to a single state's cyberstrategy.
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
- A rare French-language deep dive into a single nation's cyberstrategy — Russia's.
- Useful for the doctrinal and information-warfare framing that later events (2016, Ukraine) made famous.
- From 2013: foundational context, but pair with newer reporting (e.g. Sandworm) for events since.
- 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
La cyberstratégie russe and Le cyberespace are both rated 3/5 in our catalog. Pick by topic preference and reading style rather than by rating.
Both books target intermediate-level readers, so the choice is about topic, not difficulty.
La cyberstratégie russe and Le cyberespace both cover Geopolitics, Nation-State, Strategy, so reading them in sequence reinforces the same material from different angles.