Bytes, bombs, and spies the strategic dimensions of offensive cyber operations

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zegart, Amy B., 1967-

Lin, Herbert.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberspace--Security measures--Government policy--United States.

Cyberspace.

Cyberspace operations (Military science)--United States.

Cyberspace operations (Military science).

Cyberterrorism--Prevention.

National security.

Cyberterrorism--United States--Prevention.

Cyberterrorism.

National security--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2019.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019.

Summary:

"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters."--New York Times Book Review This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment--a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country's most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon--1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion--descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War--the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost--one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Illuminating a new domain : the role and nature of military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in cyberspace / Chris Inglis

How effects, saliencies, and norms should influence U.S. cyberwar doctrine / Henry Farrell and Charles L. Glaser

A strategic assessment of the U.S. Cyber Command vision / Max W.E. Smeets and Herbert Lin

A cyber SIOP? : operational considerations for strategic offensive cyber planning / Austin Long

Second acts in cyberspace / Martin C. Libicki

Hacking a nation's missile development program / Herbert Lin

The Cartwright conjecture : the deterrent value and escalatory risk of fearsome cyber capabilities / Jason Healey

The cyber commitment problem and the destabilization of nuclear deterrence / Erik Gartzke and Jon R. Lindsay

Cyber terrorism : its effects on psychological well-being, public confidence, and political attitude / Michael L. Gross, Daphna Canetti, and Dana R. Vashdi

Limiting the undesired impact of cyber weapons : technical requirements and policy implications / Steven M. Bellovin, Susan Landau, and Herbert Lin

Rules of engagement for cyberspace operations : a view from the United States / C. Robert Kehler, Herbert Lin, and Michael Sulmeyer

U.S. offensive cyber operations in a China- U.S. military confrontation / Adam Segal

Disintermediation, counterinsurgency, and cyber defense / David Aucsmith

Private sector cyber weapons : an adequate response to the sovereignty gap? / Lucas Kello

cyberwar inc. : examining the role of companies in offensive cyber operations / Irv Lachow and Taylor Grossman.

Notes:

GOBI

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

0-8157-5089-7

0-8157-3548-0

OCLC:

1125069638