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“Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest” edited by Robert Chesney & Max Smeets
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Less a single work and more of a collection of cohesively structured long-form essays, this book pits some of the leading US experts on cyber operations against each other to answer one question: is it better to frame cyber actions as part of a greater “intelligence contest” or is it truly a new means for waging war? The book presents varying definitions of what constitutes intelligence operations and highlights the inherent trade-offs between secrecy and cyber activities. Cyber operations must remain secret to maintain effectiveness, yet secrecy diminishes the more cyber operations scale up in size. The authors argue this inherently limits the scope of cyber activity. If we are to disagree with their framing of cyber operations as an intelligence contest, then we must challenge our perceptions of what constitutes war. Would the Russian election interference in 2016 be construed as an act of war? This debate clearly has significant policy ramifications and highlights the difficulties nations have with competing against one another in the Information Age. Gray zone warfare has become the new normal as nations have found novel ways to compete via digital means. This book was an excellent conversation starter that presents refreshingly contrasting opinions on the subject of cyber operations. 💻⚔️
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Less a single work and more of a collection of cohesively structured long-form essays, this book pits some of the leading US experts on cyber operations against each other to answer one question: is it better to frame cyber actions as part of a greater “intelligence contest” or is it truly a new means for waging war? The book presents varying definitions of what constitutes intelligence operations and highlights the inherent trade-offs between secrecy and cyber activities. Cyber operations must remain secret to maintain effectiveness, yet secrecy diminishes the more cyber operations scale up in size. The authors argue this inherently limits the scope of cyber activity. If we are to disagree with their framing of cyber operations as an intelligence contest, then we must challenge our perceptions of what constitutes war. Would the Russian election interference in 2016 be construed as an act of war? This debate clearly has significant policy ramifications and highlights the difficulties nations have with competing against one another in the Information Age. Gray zone warfare has become the new normal as nations have found novel ways to compete via digital means. This book was an excellent conversation starter that presents refreshingly contrasting opinions on the subject of cyber operations. 💻⚔️