You can’t help but wonder how much Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security, was written to enhance the reputation and revenue stream of its primary author, Richard Clarke. After all, he was the anti-terrorism official from the Clinton and Bush Administrations who publicly apologized in 2004 for failing to stop the Sept. 11 attacks, and he’s been making hay as a security consultant and television pundit ever since. Cyber War (Ecco Press, April 2010, 290 pps., $26, with co-author Robert Knake) continues in that vein, as a vehicle for Clarke to grandstand and tout the wisdom of Richard Clarke.
