Understanding Cyber Conflict

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, analysts, scholars, and students make sense of contemporary cyber conflict through historical analogies to past military-technological problems. The Chapters are divided into three sections: "What Are Cyber Weapons Like?" "What Might Cyber Wars Be Like?" And "What Is Preventing and/or Managing Cyber Conflict Like?".