World on the Brink

Alperovitch, a cybersecurity founder and Cyber Safety Review Board member, teams with journalist Garrett Graff to argue that a "Cold War II" with China is already underway, with Taiwan occupying the same tripwire role Berlin held in the twentieth century. Reviewers have engaged seriously with the book's central claim, that Washington should filter nearly every policy decision through the question of how it affects deterrence against Beijing, while noting this framing will read as hawkish to some and necessary to others. The book's strength, per multiple reviews, is its fluency across chips, military strategy, and cyber conflict.