Understanding Cyber Conflict 14 Analogies (PDF) (Print)

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.