Making strategic sense of cyber power : (Record no. 78081)
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control field | 14201549 |
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control field | 20130515113028.0 |
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fixed length control field | 130514s2013 pau | f000 0 eng c |
020 ## - ISBN | |
ISBN | 158487564X |
020 ## - ISBN | |
ISBN | 9781584875642 |
040 ## - CATALOGUING LIBRARY | |
Original cataloging library | AWC |
Modifying library | OCLCO |
-- | OSU |
-- | Sipr |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
Language code | eng |
100 1# - AUTHOR | |
Personal name | Gray, Colin S. |
245 10 - TITLE | |
Title | Making strategic sense of cyber power : |
Subtitle | why the sky is not falling / |
Author, etc | Colin S. Gray |
260 ## - PUBLICATION DATA | |
Place of publication | Carlisle, PA : |
Publisher | U.S. Army War College Press, |
Year | 2013 |
300 ## - PAGES ETC | |
Pages | xi, 67 p. ; |
Dimensions | 23 cm |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
General note | SIP1305 |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
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. |
520 ## - SUMMARY | |
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 |
653 ## - UNCONTROLLED KEYWORD | |
Uncontrolled keyword | cyber terrorism |
710 2# - ADDED INSTITUTION | |
Institution | US Army War College. |
Subordinate unit | Strategic Studies Institute, SSI |
852 ## - LOCATION | |
Classification part | 681.3 Gray |
856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION | |
URI | http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1147 |
942 ## - ITEM TYPE (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | monograph |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Acquisition no. | Date last seen | Date checked out | Koha item type |
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SIPRI Library and Documentation | SIPRI Library and Documentation | 2013-05-15 | 1 | 8 | 681.3 Gray | G13/323 | 2015-05-25 | 2014-09-01 | monograph |