"Could something like this really happen?" -- "It's all about the information" -- A cyber Pearl Harbor -- Eligible receiver -- Solar sunrise, moonlight maze -- The coordinator meets Mudge -- Deny, exploit, corrupt, destroy -- Tailored access -- Cyber wars -- Buckshot Yankee -- "The whole haystack" -- "Somebody has crossed the Rubicon" -- Shady RATs -- "The five guys report" -- "We're wandering in dark territory."

This book probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and (more often than people know) fighting--these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future.