It’s time to update The Red Teamer’s Bookshelf, an exercise we first undertook in 2009. This time, we feature titles from the Red Team Journal editors and advisors as well as suggestions from external thought leaders in the red teaming community. Please note that the list is an admittedly eclectic sample rather than a comprehensive catalog.
Abella (2008), Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Baldy (1987), Battle for Ulster (PDF).
Belfiore (2009), The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
Bell and Whaley (1991), Cheating and Deception
Bodmer, et al (2012), Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation
Brafman and Beckstrom (2006), The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Coram (2002), Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Gardner (2011), Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Are Next to Worthless, and You Can Do Better
Hoglund and McGraw (2007), Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems
Holt (2004), The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
Hubbard (2009), The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It
Jackson (2010), The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics
Jones (1978), Most Secret War
Jost (2004), Political Psychology: Key Readings
Kahneman (2011), Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kam (2004), Surprise Attack: The Victim’s Perspective
Kelly (1994), Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World
Kiechel (2010), The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Kumar (2012), 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization
Lacey (2011), Managing the Human Factor in Information Security: How to Win over Staff and Influence Business Managers
McRaven (1996), Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice
Mitnick and Simon (2003), The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
Robb (2008), Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization
Russell (1957), Wasp
Salisbury (2010), Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Schneier (2012), Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Singer (2009), Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Sloan (1981), Simulating Terrorism
Sloan and Bunker (2011), Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training
Starinov (1995), Over the Abyss
Stoll (1989), The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Taleb (2007, 2nd ed.), The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility”
Tofflers (1993), War and Anti-War: Making Sense of Today’s Global Chaos
Zolli (2012), Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
Updated: 3 Dec. 2012
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