Understanding Cyber Conflict : Fourteen Analogies / George Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levite, Ariel, editor.

Perkovich, George, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberspace operations (Military science).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Analogies help us think, learn, and communicate. The fourteen case studies in this volume help readers make sense of contemporary cyber conflict through historical analogies to past military-technological problems. The chapters are divided into three groups. The first--What Are Cyber Weapons Like?--examines the characteristics of cyber capabilities and how their use for intelligence gathering, signaling, and precision strike compares with earlier technologies for such missions. The second section--What Might Cyber Wars Be Like?--explores how lessons from several wars since the early 19th century, including the World Wars, could apply or not apply to cyber conflict in the 21st century. The final section--What Is Preventing and/or Managing Cyber Conflict Like?--offers lessons from 19th and 20th century cases of managing threatening actors and technologies.

Contents:

What are cyber weapons like?

Intelligence in cyber; and cyber intelligence / Michael Warner

Non-lethal weapons and cyber capabilities / Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle Jr. (USMC, ret.), Michael Sulmeyer, and Ben Buchanan

Cyber weapons and precision-guided munitions / James M. Acton

Cyber, drones, and secrecy / David E. Sanger

What might cyber wars be like?

Cyber war and information war a la russe / Stephen Blank

An ounce of (virtual) prevention / John Arquilla

Crisis instability and preemption : the 1914 railroad analogy / Francis J. Gavin

Brits-krieg : the strategy of economic warfare / Nicholas Lambert

Why a digital Pearl Harbor makes sense ... and is possible

Emily O. Goldman and Michael Warner

What is preventing and/or managing cyber conflict like?

Cyber threats, nuclear analogies? / Steven E. Miller

From Pearl Harbor to "harbor lights" / John Arquilla

Active cyber defense : applying air defense to the cyber domain / Dorothy E. Denning and Bradley J. Strawser

Predelegation in nuclear and cyber scenarios / Peter Feaver and Kenneth Geers

Cybersecurity and the age of privateering / Florian Egloff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626164994

1626164991

OCLC:

973222794