In Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” the protagonist Vadim Baranov — a fictionalized version of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political technologist Vladislav Surkov — articulates a chilling doctrine that has become a defining geopolitical reality. Modern cyber conflict is not about sending a winning message to convince the other side that you are correct, he explains. Rather,........

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