The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
Written by Jim Sciutto
Narrated by Jim Sciutto
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of twenty-first century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged—often without the public’s full knowledge—from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry.
The United States is currently under attack from multiple adversaries—yet most Americans have no idea of the dangers threatening us. In this eye-opening audiobook, military and intelligence expert and seasoned reporter Jim Sciutto traces the expanding web of attacks that together amount to an undeclared but deeply dangerous war on America.
With in-depth reporting from Ukraine to the South China Sea, Cuba to the earth’s atmosphere, unprecedented access to America’s Space Command, and new information from inside the intelligence agencies tracking election interference, Sciutto draws on his deep knowledge, high-level contacts, and personal experience as a journalist and diplomat to paint the most comprehensive and vivid picture of a nation targeted by a new and disturbing brand of warfare.
America is engaged in a Shadow War on multiple fronts, with multiple enemies. The practitioners include America’s most familiar adversaries: Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. But unlike conventional warfare, these conflicts are conducted in the shadows, with no formal declaration and often use multiple sources, from influential businessmen and lawyers to hackers. And it is happening today.
But America is adapting and fighting back. In The Shadow War, Sciutto introduces the dizzying array of soldiers, sailors, submariners and their commanders, space engineers, computer scientists, and civilians who are on the front lines of this new kind of forever war. Intensive and disturbing, this invaluable and important work opens our eyes and makes clear that future war is here.
Jim Sciutto
Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. After more than two decades as a foreign correspondent stationed in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, he returned to Washington to cover the Defense Department, the State Department, and intelligence agencies for CNN. His work has earned him Emmy Awards, the George Polk Award, the Edward R. Murrow award, and the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in presidential coverage. A graduate of Yale and a Fulbright Fellow, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Gloria Riviera, who is a crisis communications professional and journalist for ABC News, and their three children.
Related to The Shadow War
Related audiobooks
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit--and How to Fix It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grey Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Putin Interviews: Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Code of Putinism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ukraine and the Art of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
American Government For You
Enough Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White House Plumbers: The Seven Weeks That Led to Watergate and Doomed Nixon's Presidency Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street Is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn't Vote For Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romney: A Reckoning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Peril Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear: Trump in the White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Democrat Party Hates America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Have the Right to Remain Innocent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics: 1776-1963 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the President's Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Marxism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Anti-Communist Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why We're Polarized Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Settle for More Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Watergate Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Shadow War
75 ratings6 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic. Very insightful using firsthand sources. Would recommend.
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic! Insightful, balanced, and much needed in today's IR environment.
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book should be read by every American who
wants to cut through all the forest of news and wants to understand the real goals of nations in today’s current events.1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Despite Jim working for CNN, this wasn’t a one-sided book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Author has studied, researched and presented a very complex and complicated issue that matters the whole society of this world. It is an excellent publication.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the most insightful books on current international relations I've read.