000			02767cam a22003617a 4500
001			14201549
003			SE-LIBR
005			20130515113028.0
008			130514s2013 pau | f000 0 eng c
020			_a158487564X
020			_a9781584875642
040			_aAWC _dOCLCO _dOSU _dSipr
041			_aeng
100	1		_aGray, Colin S.
245	1	0	_aMaking strategic sense of cyber power : _bwhy the sky is not falling / _cColin S. Gray
260			_aCarlisle, PA : _bU.S. Army War College Press, _c2013
300			_axi, 67 p. ; _c23 cm
500			_aSIP1305
500			_a"April 2013."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 55-63)
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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			_aCyber 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.
650		7	_aIW _xterrorism _xinformation technology _zUSA
650		7	_amilitary reforms _xsecurity _xcomputers _zUSA
653			_aRMA
653			_acyber infrastructure
653			_acyber space
653			_acyber terrorism
710	2		_aUS Army War College. _bStrategic Studies Institute, SSI
852			_h681.3 Gray
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1147
942			_cMONO
999			_c78081 _d78081