// What to read next
What to read after The Hacker and the State
Where to go after The Hacker and the State, picked from our catalog. The next step up from beginner level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2018
The Perfect Weapon
The NYT national security correspondent's account of how cyber weapons became the tool states reach for short of war, from Stuxnet to Russian election interference. Strong on the politics and decision-making, light on the technology.
Beginner4/5David E. Sanger02 · 2018
Cyber
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.
Intermediate4/5Jean-Louis Gergorin, Léo Isaac-Dognin03 · 2024
Technopolitique
A sharp, current essay on how digital technology, AI and platform power have turned citizens into actors in a permanent informational and geopolitical conflict, by a prominent French tech-politics scholar.
Intermediate4/5Asma Mhalla04 · 2012
Cyberstratégie
An early French military-strategic treatment of cyberspace as a theatre of operations — doctrine, deterrence and the determinants of a national cyber policy — by a French officer and strategist.
Intermediate3/5Bertrand Boyer05 · 2014
Cybertactique
The tactical companion to Cyberstratégie — how cyber operations are actually conducted, from planning to execution — by a French officer and strategist.
Intermediate3/5Bertrand Boyer06 · 2015
Introduction à la cyberstratégie
A foundational French introduction to cyberstrategy — treating cyberspace as a domain of strategic thought — by a former officer and strategy scholar.
Intermediate3/5Olivier Kempf07 · 2013
La cyberstratégie russe
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.
Intermediate3/5Yannick Harrel08 · 2013
Le cyberespace
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.
Intermediate3/5Stéphane Dossé, Olivier Kempf, Christian Malis