Publisher's Synopsis
The 2016 Presidential election revealed the truth about the cyber-war waged by the adversaries of the United States. How did it happen? How did we let it happen? What did we miss?The Margin of Error War is a tale of factual events with an analysis of how we lost the first epic battle in the cyberwar of the 21st century. China has had a decades-long strategy to be the dominant political and economic power in the world. But 2016 was too good an opportunity for Russia, and they preempted the behind the scenes cyberwar. Russia found the perfect convergence of technology, existing US internal conflicts, unfettered social media and a willing political partyThe US has been the leading economic and military power in the world, but the internet leveled the playing field. All combatants now have the same capabilities to wage cyberwar using unregulated digital media to influence political opinions and policy decisions. Our adversaries infiltrated and manipulated American news and media to shift voter opinions, in critical states, just enough, within the margin of error, to achieve the election result they wanted. Richard applied his years of professional experience in communications research, trends analyses and Big Data to investigate what happened in 2016. He reverse-engineered the known election results and foreign actions, to identify the methods that enabled our adversaries to control American institutions through the simple and clever use of digital news. There is more to the political cyberwar than you read in the headlines. If we don't understand how our adversaries succeeded, then countermeasures and remedies will not be effective. Our adversaries learned how to manage the American psyche and behavior, all within the margin of error. We have one more chance, before the 2020 election, to take the necessary actions and get the cyber war right.
