Amy Zegart is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where she’s also a political science professor. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her expertise includes US intelligence, emerging technologies and national security, and global political risk management. Previously, Zegart was founding co-director of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Program and a public policy professor at UCLA. She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff and was a foreign policy advisor to the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. Earlier, she was a McKinsey & Company consultant. The author of five books, Zegart’s latest is Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Her op-eds and essays have appeared widely.
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For years, experts have predicted that the next major conflict would take place inside our computers, rather than on physical battlefields. But the initial months of Russia's...