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The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power. Jacob Helberg. Avid Reader Press. 2021. ISBN: 9781982144432.

The Wires of War is a non-fiction book on how digital infrastructure and information systems have become the main battleground between democracies and techno-authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia. Helberg argues we are in an ongoing grey war, fought not with tanks but through cyber operations, disinformation, and control of physical network infrastructure like fibre optic cables, satellites, and 5G. He distinguishes a front-end battle over what we see on screens from a back-end battle over hardware and critical infrastructure that underpins the internet and modern economies.

Jacob Helberg is an American-French technology policy expert and currently the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment in President Trump's second administration. He led Google's global efforts against disinformation and foreign interference from 2016–2020, and later became a senior advisor to Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

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