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Chapter 4

Pre 9/11

e rst edition of this book was written through the period up to 2002 and was

published in 2002. e terrible tragedy of 9/11 took place in the nal stages of the

completion of the book. At the time of writing of the rst edition, no one realized

the profound eect on many aspects of life in the United States and around the

world that the attacks of 9/11 would have, and it is understandable that in light of

the attacks, the focus for security changed totally.

is chapter gives a condensed review of information warfare as it was under-

stood before that hugely signicant event and then goes on to look at the impact

that the ...