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This book is a summary and study guide for the original book "Dark Wire" by Joseph Cox, created to complement and enhance your understanding of the original work.

 

? Study Guide of Dark Wire by Joseph Cox (Keynote Reads) ?

 

Dive into the thrilling world of undercover operations and technological intrigue with our Study Guide of Dark Wire by Joseph Cox. This detailed guide offers an insightful analysis and a comprehensive overview of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever conducted, providing you with a deeper understanding of the original work.

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• Length: 79 pages
• Size: 8.5 x 11 inches, perfect for detailed note-taking and easy reading
• Format: Structured guide with key takeaways, interactive exercises, and reflective prompts

? Why This Study Guide?

In an age where technology and crime intersect in unprecedented ways, this study guide places you at the center of the FBI's most ambitious undercover operation. It's not just a book; it's your key to unlocking the complexities of modern law enforcement and the dark web.

 

? Praise for the Original Work:

"The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning both the authorities and drug traffickers have become, with privacy implications for everyone."

 

? What You'll Learn:

• Covert Operations: Gain insights into how the FBI created and managed Anom, a secure communications app secretly run by the agency.
• Global Impacts: Understand the international scope of the operation and its effects on organized crime worldwide.
• Ethical Questions: Explore the ethical dilemmas and privacy issues raised by such extensive surveillance.

? Who Should Read This Guide?

• Crime and Thriller Enthusiasts: Immerse yourself in the real-life thriller that reads like fiction.
• Law Enforcement Professionals: Learn from detailed case studies and tactical approaches used in the operation.
• Technology Buffs: Delve into the technological aspects of the sting and its broader implications on privacy and security.

✨ Unlock the Secrets:

This study guide not only summarizes the key points of "Dark Wire" but also challenges you to think critically about the tactics used and their ramifications. It's a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, law enforcement, and criminal activity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Keynote reads
• Release date: Jun 7, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227467683

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PROLOGUE

A group of four battleships and four cruisers were pounding a small strip of the coast, a shrubby cove, just 350 yards across. The cliffs ahead were cast in shadow, and red clay seeped out between the rocks. The barrage stopped, and the only sounds disturbed the calm of dawn. Then, a single rifle shot splashed into the water next to a boat that was only a hundred yards from landfall. The young, cherry-faced men crowded into boats, and their commanding officer, Major Thomas Frankland, found themselves helpless to do anything for the young, cherry-faced men under their command.

As the boats ahead stopped fifty yards from shore, men went overboard, weighed down by seventy-pound packs. The happy few who made it overboard made hopeful progress, but they were soon choked by a flotsam of once cherry-faced young men, who drifted out and back with the tide like washed-up garbage. Their blood dyed the ocean around them a dark crimson that soon stained sand beneath the roll of the tides.

Frankland ordered the boatsmen to turn toward the left edge of the cove, where the cliffs offered a modicum of cover. The scene was a stark contrast to the loud gunfire that had been raging for weeks.

Frankland, a 19-year-old officer in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was commissioned as an officer in the British Army and had spent the past sixteen years in the army. He was comfortable with danger and even earned his pilot's certification a year and a half earlier. On April 25, 1915, the Turks had twenty thousand lightly armed men on the Gallipoli Peninsula and fifty large guns. The British had the firepower of the Royal Navy and sixty thousand British Army regulars. By midnight, Sir Ian Hamilton, the commanding general of the British forces in the Gallipoli campaign, issued an order that would define the months ahead: Dig in and stick it out. The British plan was to bombard the Turkish defenses, land on six beaches around the Gallipoli Peninsula, push quickly inland, and link up on the grassy plateau above. Once secured, Gallipoli would give Britain near-total control of the Dardanelles Strait and force Turkey's capitulation in what was then called the Great War.

On a map, it all looked not just easy but obvious. Britain could capture Constantinople, open a southern line of supply with Russia, and press their advantage through the Middle East to Palestine.

The Gallipoli campaign in 1916 was a devastating battle for Britain's Empire, with the British Army's estimated victory resulting in 5,000 casualties. However, the campaign was met with a massive loss of life, with overcrowded colonies, slow and inadequate resupply, and a futile fight to make progress inland. Lieutenant Colonel Donald MacCarthy-Morrogh, commander of the Eighth Manchester Regiment, lost faith in his superiors and spent his tenth wedding anniversary raging against his superiors.

Australian journalist Keith Murdoch, who had produced a film about the Dardanelles, wrote a 25-page letter to the Australian prime minister, which had a decisive effect on the campaign. This letter led to Britain abandoning Gallipoli and ending the political career of Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Churchill, who had been a staunch supporter of the operation, was forced to resign and spend the rest of the year trying to survive in the cold.

Churchill later wrote a two-volume account of the First World War, The World Crisis, which devoted the second volume mostly to Gallipoli. He later joked that people should leave the past to history, especially as he proposed to write that history himself. Churchill succeeded in rehabilitating his reputation as a leader in times of crisis, but the words Gallipoli and the Dardanelles would remain cautionary epithets.

The Gallipoli operation was innovative in its attempt to overcome the advances in military technology, such as the machine gun and modern artillery. It was a sea battle against land, ships against forts, and nimble naval power that could annihilate a clear path for the army to stroll ashore. George S. Patton conducted a detailed study of Gallipoli for the US Army in 1936, arguing that amphibious invasion against a coastline defended with modern weaponry without the cover of darkness gave extraordinary advantages to the defenders. However, Patton's conclusion was shared by almost every serious military theorist of the era. The US Army did not adopt any doctrine on amphibious warfare until 1941, and its investment was limited to a perfunctory cribbing of research from the Marine Corps.

Dwight Eisenhower, who had spent most of the previous decade as the second in command to Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, was asked to write a report assessing the threat the Japanese posed to the Philippine archipelago. He warned that if the Japanese penetrated the coastal defenses and established a foothold inland, the American-backed Philippine Army would lose 90% of its defensive advantage. Eisenhower did everything he could to get MacArthur the firepower needed to stall the Japanese advance.

PART ONE

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CHAPTER 1

Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, was expected to be late for his flight from Algiers to Malta. The weather had delayed his flight from Gibraltar, but he remained on time, despite the cold. Churchill wanted to meet before the conference in Cairo and was also the prime minister of the British Empire.

Eisenhower had been adamant about being on time, but he had not seen each other in person for quite some time. The British had taken the initiative on a target of opportunity in the Aegean, which included the Dodecanese archipelago. However, the Germans used their air superiority to hold on by a thread. Churchill had asked Eisenhower to send in reinforcements from the Allied forces in Italy and North Africa, but Eisenhower saw it as a losing bet.

Eisenhower continued to resist and persuaded his American superiors to tie his hands. President Roosevelt intervened, but Churchill continued to ask that the question be considered again. He proposed that the Combined Chiefs of Staff grant Eisenhower authority over the whole Mediterranean, but no decision had yet been made.

Churchill's voyage to Malta was scheduled to stop over in Algiers, but Eisenhower chose to take the two days to sleep off his cold. He was treated to Malta, an ancient jewel of the British Empire, where he met W. Averell Harriman, who had grown up in the same circles as the Roosevelts. Harriman had what he thought was juicy gossip to share with Eisenhower, but it was stale. Marshall, the most respected military man in the United States, was the one man whom everyone agreed with.

In February 1942, Eisenhower was promoted to head the army's War Plans Division, which was later reorganized as the Operations Division. He had drafted a strategic plan for winning the war in Europe, with General Marshall leading the invasion of France. Harriman informed Eisenhower that Roosevelt would accept him as the new army chief of staff once General Marshall arrived in England.

Eisenhower was flattered by this news and had already heard about it from the secretary of the navy, Frank Knox, and Beetle. He was honored to be promoted to the top job in the US Army and had a happy family of staff, including Harry Butcher, Ernest Tex Lee, Mrs. Kay Summersby, Mickey McKeogh, Corporal Henry Clay Williams, and Sergeant John Moaney.

Eisenhower had spent months developing a relationship with Pietro Badoglio, who now headed the anti-Fascist Italian government. The prospect of being promoted to the top job in the army made Eisenhower dread the prospect of losing all of his successes and depriving him of even greater victories ahead. Being chief of staff meant supervising George Marshall in Europe and Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific.

The threat of promotion made Eisenhower regret giving up his former job as the army's commanding general for the European Theater of Operations. He had designed the position to ensure that whoever occupied the position would play a leading role in the invasion of France. Eisenhower had gone to England in spring 1942 on a fact-finding trip to figure out why Operation Bolero was having difficulty getting off the ground and recommended that the American general in charge be fired.

In 1943, Eisenhower, a deskbound brigadier general, was fired by General Marshall and replaced by Eisenhower as the commander of the European Theater of Operations. This marked the first time in a decade that Eisenhower had imagined big things for himself. However, Eisenhower's initial plan for invading France in 1943 had been postponed in favor of expelling the Axis powers from North Africa, an operation code-named Torch. This change led to Eisenhower being replaced as the commanding general of the European Theater of Operations by Jacob Devers, who would be the inevitable deputy when Marshall came to England.

Chatting with Harriman in Malta gave Eisenhower a glimmer of hope that he might avoid exile to the Pentagon. Roosevelt was reluctant to allow General Marshall to leave Washington, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff doubted his suitability for the job. However, no one knew what Roosevelt would do, and he always listened carefully to everyone.

If Roosevelt didn't give General Marshall the job, that created an even bigger problem over who would get it. Churchill, a legend for as long as Eisenhower knew him, presented Eisenhower with a special variation of the Africa Star medal. Churchill had been in the same room together around Christmas 1941,