Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

With billions of computers in existence, cyberspace, 'the virtual world created when they are connected,' is said to be the new medium of power. Computer hackers operating from anywhere can enter cyberspace and take control of other people's computers, stealing their information, corrupting their workings, and shutting them down. Modern societies and militaries, both pervaded by computers, are supposedly at risk. As Conquest in Cyberspace explains, however, information systems and information itself are too easily conflated, and persistent mastery over the former is difficult to achieve.

Computers & Technology

Libicki, Martin C.

Certification

Cambridge University Press

Networking & Cloud Computing

Mesh And The Net: Speculations On Armed Conflict In A Time Of Free Silicon

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Diane Pub Co.

Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs

Engineering & Transportation

Kugler, Richard L.

Gompert, David C.

Engineering

Governments spend billions to protect against terrorism. Might it help to understand what al Qaeda would achieve with each specific attack? This book examines various hypotheses of terrorist targeting: is it (1) to coerce, (2) to damage economies, (3) to rally the faithful, or (4) a decision left to affiliates? This book analyzes past attacks, post hoc justifications, and expert opinion to weigh each hypothesis.

Exploring Terrorist Targeting Preferences

RAND Corporation

Libicki et al. argue that information collection requirements and systems for counterinsurgency are important because the community that conducts counterinsurgency crosses national and institutional boundaries and because the indigenous population plays a large role in determining the outcome of an insurgency. They then demonstrate what this focus implies for counterinsurgency requirements, collection, networking, and systems design.

Byting Back--Regaining Information Superiority Against 21st-Century Insurgents: RAND Counterinsurgency Study

Social Sciences

The U.S. military is ill-equipped to strike at extremists who hide in populations. Using deadly force against them can harm and alienate the very people whose cooperation U.S. forces are trying to earn. To solve this problem, a new RAND study proposes a 3continuum of force2

Underkill: Scalable Capabilities for Military Operations Amid Populations

History

Gordon, John

Frelinger, David R.

Johnson, Stuart E.

Military

Cyberspace, where information―and hence serious value―is stored and manipulated, is a tempting target. An attacker could be a person, group, or state and may disrupt or corrupt the systems from which cyberspace is built. When states are involved, it is tempting to compare fights to warfare, but there are important differences. The author addresses these differences and ways the United States protect itself in the face of attack.

Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar

In 2008, RAND carried out a survey of conditions in Anbar Province, once one of Iraq1s most violent areas. The resulting data on demographics, employment, income and standards of living, education, health, housing and public infrastructure, the effects of war, and agriculture should foster greater understanding of current conditions in al-Anbar and help identify areas on which to focus future assistance.

Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2008 (Technical Report / Rand Corporation)

Crane, Keith

Grant, Audra K.

Bruce, James B.

Al-Shahery, Omar

RAND studied 89 modern insurgency cases to test conventional understanding about how insurgencies end. Findings relevant to policymakers and analysts include that modern insurgencies last about ten years; withdrawal of state support cripples insurgencies; civil defense forces are useful for both sides; pseudodemocracies fare poorly against insurgents; and governments win more often in the long run.

How Insurgencies End

Connable, Ben

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