Best Strategy books

The Hacker and the State

Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

Ben Buchanan's argument that state-on-state cyber operations are not deterrence-shaped (like nuclear) but signaling-shaped: countries use cyber to shape the environment, not to threaten escalation. Builds the case from declassified incidents.

Technopolitique

Comment la technologie fait de nous des soldats

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.

A Hacker's Mind

How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back

Bruce Schneier extends the security-engineering frame of "hacking" to law, finance, politics, and tax: every rule-based system has exploitable seams, and the wealthy and powerful exploit them constantly.

Cybersécurité

Analyser les risques, mettre en œuvre les solutions

Solange Ghernaouti's broad academic survey of cybersecurity — risk analysis, governance, technical and legal dimensions — the standard French university reference, now in its 7th edition.

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.

The Perfect Weapon

War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

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.

Cyberjutsu

Cybersecurity for the Modern Ninja

Ben McCarty maps declassified medieval ninja scrolls onto modern adversary tradecraft. More analogy-driven than technical, useful for security-program framing.

Intelligence artificielle, cybersécurité et cyberdéfense

An academic examination of how artificial intelligence reshapes cybersecurity and cyberdefence — opportunities, threats and strategic implications — by France's most prolific cyberwar scholar.

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.

La cybersécurité

Que sais-je ?

A pocket-sized primer on cybersecurity as a societal and geopolitical issue — threats, actors, stakes and policy — in the classic French “Que sais-je ?” format.

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.