Shadow Warfare offers a comprehensive and extensively researched analysis of the importance of cyber warfare in international politics. Unique among other studies, it offers a comparative perspective of the domestic institutions and strategies of the United States, Russia, and China. This comparative perspective reveals how all three powers share extensive reliance on offensive cyber attacks in their national security policies, targeting both industrial and government secrets.
— Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Shadow Warfare is fast-paced, full of riveting descriptions of cyber espionage, clearly illustrating our vulnerabilities, and the rapidly growing capabilities available to governments and non-state actors around the world. I found it difficult to stop reading. I was particularly impressed with Dr Davis’s emphasis on policy, on the comparison of policies between the United States, the Kremlin, and the Chinese Communist Party. The technological part is relatively easy - it’s getting the policy and law right, especially when the US are trying to coordinate with Allies and other nations, that is much more difficult. Dr Davis’s book will help the reader understand this.
— Ben Hodges, Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, Center for European Policy Analysis
This is simply an outstanding book! Van Wie Davis takes on an enemy that few in the policy world even recognise – definitional laziness. The centre of gravity of the book concerns the extent to which cyberwar enables a new form of systemic warfare in which the distinction between allies and adversaries becomes irrelevant. Chinese, Russian and US policy is the focus of the book, but the real challenge is how to render order from disorder, anarchy and the destruction it could afford. Read it and learn!
— Julian Lindley-French, Chair of The Alphen Group