Making strategic sense of cyber power : (Record no. 78081)

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fixed length control field 130514s2013 pau | f000 0 eng c
020 ## - ISBN
ISBN 158487564X
020 ## - ISBN
ISBN 9781584875642
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Original cataloging library AWC
Modifying library OCLCO
-- OSU
-- Sipr
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Language code eng
100 1# - AUTHOR
Personal name Gray, Colin S.
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Title Making strategic sense of cyber power :
Subtitle why the sky is not falling /
Author, etc Colin S. Gray
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Place of publication Carlisle, PA :
Publisher U.S. Army War College Press,
Year 2013
300 ## - PAGES ETC
Pages xi, 67 p. ;
Dimensions 23 cm
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General note SIP1305
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General note "April 2013."
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
About the authors Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-63)
505 0# - CONTENTS
Contents Introduction : the challenge -- Contexts : cyber in the five domains of war. Context 1 : Strategy's general theory -- Context 2 : Geography -- Context 3 : Information -- RMA theory and cyber -- Strategic effectiveness. Net assessment -- Analogy, tactical and strategic -- Conclusions and recommendations : the sky is not falling.
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Summary, etc Cyber is now recognized as an operational domain, but the theory that should explain it strategically is, for the most part, missing. It is one thing to know how to digitize; it is quite another to understand what digitization means strategically. The author maintains that, although the technical and tactical literature on cyber is abundant, strategic theoretical treatment is poor. He offers four conclusions: (1) cyber power will prove useful as an enabler of joint military operations; (2) cyber offense is likely to achieve some success, and the harm we suffer is most unlikely to be close to lethally damaging; (3) cyber power is only information and is only one way in which we collect, store, and transmit information; and, (4) it is clear enough today that the sky is not falling because of cyber peril. As a constructed environment, cyberspace is very much what we choose to make it. Once we shed our inappropriate awe of the scientific and technological novelty and wonder of it all, we ought to have little trouble realizing that as a strategic challenge we have met and succeeded against the like of networked computers and their electrons before. The whole record of strategic history says: Be respectful of, and adapt for, technical change, but do not panic.--Publisher description.
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Keyword IW
Subdivision terrorism
-- information technology
Geographic subdivision USA
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Keyword military reforms
Subdivision security
-- computers
Geographic subdivision USA
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Uncontrolled keyword RMA
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Uncontrolled keyword cyber infrastructure
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Uncontrolled keyword cyber space
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Uncontrolled keyword cyber terrorism
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Institution US Army War College.
Subordinate unit Strategic Studies Institute, SSI
852 ## - LOCATION
Classification part 681.3 Gray
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URI http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1147
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Koha item type monograph
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