Fred Kaplan is a national security correspondent for Slate. The Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist for the Boston Globe is also the author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War and Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War.
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