LikeWar named an Amazon Best Book of the Year, notably in two categories, for NonFiction and Business & Leadership.
Named by Foreign Affairs as one of the “Best Books of 2018”
LikeWar should be required reading for everyone living in a democracy and all who aspire to.—BookList (starred review)
“LikeWar is an engaging and startling work.” —Vice-Motherboard
“LikeWar is a magical combination of history, technology, and early warning wrapped in a compelling narrative of how today’s information space can threaten the truth, our polity, and our security. It’s a page turner, too, chock full of deep insights and fascinating detail. Sun Tzu tells us to know ourselves, our enemy and our battle space and LikeWar delivers on all three.”—General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA, author of The Assault on Intelligence
“Online technology has outrun our social intuitions about its power. In vivid prose, Singer and Brooking offer insight into the ways that social media can be used to manipulate beliefs and attitudes for self-serving purposes.” —Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the internet, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
“Much as Clausewitz did for conventional war, LikeWar lays out the new 21st century principles of war. Mixing fascinating stories and the front edge of research, it explains the twilight battlegrounds of politics and war on social media—a frightening future where truth is the first casualty, and our fundamental values are deeply at danger. I loved it.”—Admiral James Stavridis, US Navy (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
“A timely, urgent look at a world of electronic sheep—and wolves aplenty, too.” —Kirkus
“My films have specialized in realistic horror. LikeWar is scary as hell, as it shows how people can be manipulated online to make our worst fears come true.”—Jason Blum, producer of The Purge and Get Out
“Through a series of vivid vignettes, LikeWar shows how the internet has become a new battlefield in the 21st century, in ways that blur the line between war and peace and make each of us a potential target of postmodern conflict.”—Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University
“LikeWar is the definitive work on the information revolution—its early origins, growth, and many complex implications. It weaves this broad-tapestry in a way that explains, compels, and provokes thought all at once. A fascinating, informative must-read.”—Lt. Gen. James Clapper, USAF (ret.) Former Director of National Intelligence