Covert wars, waged virally

Is the United States at war with Iran? If David Sanger’s account in his new book, Confront and Conceal, on President Obama’s foreign policy, is to be believed – and I find it very believable – we certainly are. The stunning revelations by Mr Sanger, The New York Times’ chief Washington correspondent, about the American role in using computer warfare to attack Iran’s nuclear programme already have made headlines, and rightly so. He persuasively shows that under Mr Obama, the US government has been engaged in what one presidential adviser calls “a state of low-grade, daily conflict”.

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