Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict-including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns-require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed, how effective they can be, and how they can be managed. Written by leading scholars, the fourteen case studies in this volume will help policymakers, scholars, and students 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 striking 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 nineteenth century, including the World Wars, could apply-or not-to cyber conflict in the twenty-first century. The final section-What Is Preventing and/or Managing Cyber Conflict Like?-offers lessons from past cases of managing threatening actors and technologies.
IntroductionGeorge Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite I. What Are Cyber Weapons Like?1. Intelligence in Cyber-and Cyber in IntelligenceMichael Warner2. Nonlethal Weapons and Cyber Capabilities Lt. Gen. Robert E. Schmidle Jr. (USMC, Ret.), Michael Sulmeyer, and Ben Buchanan3. Cyber Weapons and Precision-Guided MunitionsJames M. Acton4. Cyber, Drones, and SecrecyDavid E. SangerII. What Might Cyber Wars Be Like?5. Cyber War and Information War a la RusseStephen Blank 6. An Ounce of (Virtual) Prevention?John Arquilla7. Crisis Instability and Preemption: The 1914 Railroad AnalogyFrancis J. Gavin8. Brits-Krieg: The Strategy of Economic WarfareNicholas A. Lambert9. Why a Digital Pearl Harbor Makes Sense ... and Is PossibleEmily O. Goldman and Michael Warner III. What Are Preventing and Managing Cyber Conflict Like?10. Cyber Threats, Nuclear Analogies? Divergent Trajectories in Adapting to New Dual-Use TechnologiesSteven E. Miller11. From Pearl Harbor to the "Harbor Lights"John Arquilla12. Active Cyber Defense: Applying Air Defense to the Cyber DomainDorothy E. Denning and Bradley J. Strawser13. "When the Urgency of Time and Circumstances Clearly Does Not Permit ...": Pre-delegation in Nuclear and Cyber ScenariosPeter Feaver and Kenneth Geers 14. Cybersecurity and the Age of PrivateeringFlorian EgloffConclusionsGeorge Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite List of ContributorsIndex
