Book Review [The Shadow War: Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America

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This is a book review of the book by Jim Sciutto (2019), Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America, Harper Published by - Harper (2019) Format - Paperback ISBN - 978-0-06-285366-0. 320 pages Reviewed by John Battersby This book includes chapters on the Russian cyber attack on Estonia in 2007, Chinese HUMINT operations in the US which extracted key intelligence on US military hardware, Russia’s intervention in the Ukraine, China’s construction of island bases in the South China Sea and the use of military and non-military intimidation tactics to assert effective sovereignty over territory and sea space other countries claim, the weaponisation of space, the 2016 US election hacks as well as submarine operations involving the US, Russia and China. The book concludes with a summary of the author’s views on the state of the ‘shadow war’, and what the US (and the West) need to do about it.