Understanding Cyber Conflict draws lessons from past technological disruptions to inform and shape responses to today’s cyber challenges.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. What Are Cyber Weapons Like?
- Intelligence in Cyber—and Cyber in Intelligence
- Nonlethal Weapons and Cyber Capabilities
- Cyber Weapons and Precision-Guided Munitions
- Cyber, Drones, and Secrecy
II. What Might Cyber Wars Be Like?
- Cyber War and Information War à la Russe
- An Ounce of (Virtual) Prevention?
- Crisis Instability and Preemption: The 1914 Railroad Analogy
- Brits-Krieg: The Strategy of Economic Warfare
- Why a Digital Pearl Harbor Makes Sense . . . and Is Possible
III. What Are Preventing and Managing Cyber Conflict Like?
- Cyber Threats, Nuclear Analogies? Divergent Trajectories in Adapting to New Dual-Use Technologies
- From Pearl Harbor to the “Harbor Lights”
- Active Cyber Defense: Applying Air Defense to the Cyber Domain
- “When the Urgency of Time and Circumstances Clearly Does Not Permit . . .”: Pre-delegation in Nuclear and Cyber Scenarios
- Cybersecurity and the Age of Privateering