Best Nation-State books

Countdown to Zero Day

Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Kim Zetter's investigative reconstruction of Stuxnet, the joint US/Israeli operation that physically damaged Iranian uranium-enrichment centrifuges via a worm, and what its discovery revealed about state-level cyber capability.

Cyber

La guerre permanente

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.

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.

Cybertactique

Conduire la guerre numérique

The tactical companion to Cyberstratégie — how cyber operations are actually conducted, from planning to execution — by a French officer and strategist.

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.

Le cyberespace

Nouveau domaine de la pensée stratégique

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.

Cyberstratégie

L'art de la guerre numérique

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.

Cyberattaque et cyberdéfense

An academic, systematic treatment of cyberconflict — doctrines, actors, attack and defence scenarios — from a CNRS researcher who is one of France's most prolific scholars of cyberwar.