"An important, disturbing, and gripping history arguing convincingly that, as of 2015, no defense exists against a resourceful cyberattack." Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A book that grips, informs and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related." -- John le Carre "Dark Territory is a remarkable piece of reporting. Fred Kaplan has illuminated not merely the profound vulnerabilities of our nation to cyber warfare, but why it has taken so long for our policy-makers to translate indifference into concern and concern into action. This is a vitally important book by a meticulous journalist." -- Ted Koppel, author of Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath "A fascinating account of the people and organizations leading the way towards a cyber war future." -- Dorothy E. Denning, author of Information Warfare and Security, 1st Inductee, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame "Everyone has heard the term 'cyber warfare.' Very few people could explain exactly what it means and why it matters. Dark Territory solves that problem with an account that is both fascinating and authoritative. Fred Kaplan has put the people, the technologies, the dramatic turning points, and the strategic and economic stakes together in a way no author has done before." -- James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Praise for The Insurgents: "Thrilling reading ... A fascinating history ... The Insurgents proceeds like a whodunit ... An authoritative, gripping and somewhat terrifying account of how the American military approached two major wars in the combustible Islamic world ... There is no one better equipped to tell the story than Fred Kaplan, a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter ... He brings genuine expertise to his fine storytelling."-NYT Book Review "One of the very best books ever written about the American military in the era of small wars ... Fred Kaplan brings a formidable talent for writing intellectual history."-The New York Review of Books "Riveting ... essential reading ... Kaplan's meticulous account of the ways Petraeus found to bring together and nurture the counterinsurgency 'cabal' might profitably be read by anyone interested in bringing change to a giant bureaucracy."-The Daily Beast "Serious and insightful ... The Insurgents seems destined to be one of the more significant looks at how the US pursued the war in Iraq, and at the complex mind of the general in charge when the tide turned."-Los Angeles Times "Excellent ... An intellectual thriller."-Time "A very readable,thoroughly reported account of how, in American military circles,'counterinsurgency' became a policy instead of a dirty word."-New York Times "Kaplan has a gift for bringing to life what might otherwise seem like arcane strategic debates by linking them to the personalities and biographies of the main participants, and he vividly captures the drama of Petraeus' struggle against a Pentagon establishment."-Foreign Affairs "Excellent ... Poignant and timely ... A good read, richin texture and never less than wise."-Foreign Policy "Compelling."-The New Yorker "A must-read formilitary and national security professionals ... Prodigious detail ... earthy information about the human foibles of the participants."-Washington Times Praise for Daydream Believers "Illuminating... incisive."-The New York Times "Alively and entertaining-if occasionally horrifying-read ... Like a master archaeologist who can see through the shards and stones of a dig to reconstruct the culture of the city below, Kaplan lays out all the failures, omissions, and delusions of Bush administration officials. The result is an account of the pathologies ... of Washington itself ... a caution about the limits of purely military power and the dangers of seeing the world as a morality play."-The Washington Post Book World "Excellent and devastating ... Go, please, and buy Kaplan's book. His great work deserves attention and reward."-Time "The inside history of our time, told with precision and confidence, by an author who knows where the secrets are kept."-Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco "Fred Kaplan has long been one of our most incisive thinkers about strategic issues. In this provocative book, he challenges many of our assumptions about the post-9/11 world and offers a dose of realism about the way the world actually works after the end of the Cold War. It's a bracing read."-Walter Isaacson Praise for The Wizards of Armageddon "Fascinating... It contains much that is not only new but stunning about the nation's official thinking and planning for nuclear war."-Washington Post Book World "An absorbing work ... The story of the remarkable civilians who developed the novel field of nuclear strategy-men such as Bernard Brodie, William Kaufmann, Albert Wohlstetter, and Herman Kahn-is told admirably well. Even those who are familiar with this story will find fascinating details here."-Foreign Affairs "Like most people, I know that nuclear strategy is a subject of crucial importance-but shy away from it as too forbidding. Reading Fred Kaplan, I understand and want to learn more. He brings the subject to life with human example and an understanding so sure that he can explain the unthinkable."-New York Times "[The] definitive intellectual history of early nuclear deterrence." -Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars

Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate and has also written many articles on politics and culture in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York magazine, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and many other publications. A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, he is also the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power.