Selected Readings in Cyberwar

I will keep this post updated. Suggestions are welcomed at mrkoot[at]gmail[dot]com.

BOF

Cyber Glossaries

• SANS Glossary of Security Terms
• National Information Assurance Glossary (.pdf), Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), May 2003

2012

• Dutch Military Intelligence Dives into Cyber, May 22nd 2012, Don Eijndhoven
• ENISA report: "National Cyber Security Strategies" (.pdf), May 2012, ENISA
• Military officials push to elevate cyber unit to full combatant command status (news article), The Washington Post, May 2nd 2012
• Cybersecurity: Authoritative Reports and Resources (.pdf), Rita Tehan, U.S. Congressional Research Service, April 26th 2012
• Sailing the Cyber Sea (also available as .pdf), James G. Stavridis and Elton C. Parker, JFQ-65, April 2012
• NATO Rapid Reaction Team to fight cyber attack, NATO, March 13th 2012
• NATO Announces Largest-Ever Cyber Warfare Spending, NATO, March 8th 2012
• NATO's Cyber Capabilities: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Jason Healey and Leendert van Bochoven, ACUS, February 2012
• Designer Satellite Collisions from Covert Cyber War (.pdf), Jan Kallberg, SSQ Spring 2012
• Cyber-Weapons (.pdf) Thomas Rid and Peter McBurney, The RUSI Journal 157:1 6-13, February 29th 2012
• Intelligence Leaders Urge Congress to Act on Cyber Laws, Lisa Daniel, American Forces Press Service, February 2012
• Cyber weapons growing concern in hyper connected world, experts say, Steven Beardsley, Stars and Stripes, February 2012
• Disagreements on cyber risk East-West "Cold War", Peter Apps, Reuters, February 2012
• Defense Bill Approves Offensive Cyber Warfare, J. Nicholas Hoover, Information Week Government, January 2012
• Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy (.pdf), Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins, Harvard NatSec Journal, 2012 
  

2011

• Dutch Council on Int'l Affairs' Advise On Digital Warfare (.pdf), Dutch Council on Int'l Affairs, December 2011 (in Dutch; here is an unauthorized translation to English)
• The Jester Dynamic: A Lesson in Asymmetric, Unmanaged Cyber Warfare (.pdf), TJ OConnor, December 2011
• Joint Targeting in Cyberspace (.pdf), Maj Steven J. Smart (USAF), Air and Space Power Journal 2011-4, Winter 2011
• Can It Really Work? Problems with Extending EINSTEIN 3 to Critical Infrastructure (.pdf), Steven M. Bellovin, Scott O. Bradner, Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau, and Jennifer Rexford, Harvard NatSec Journal 3:1, ? 2011  
• Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate: Distinguishing Military Operations, Intelligence Activities & Covert Action (.pdf), Andru E. Wall, Harvard NatSec Journal 3:1, ? 2011
• Nuclear Lessons for Cyber Security? (.pdf), Joseph S. Nye Jr., SSQ Winter 2011
• NDAA Section 934 - US DoD Cyberspace Policy Report (.pdf), US DoD, November 2011
• There is no cyber war the same way there is no nuclear war, Richard Stiennon, Forbes, November 3rd, 2011
• Arms control in the fifth domain, Charlemagne, The Economist, October 2011
• Estonia: Cyber Window into the Future of NATO, Häly Laasme, JFQ-63, October 2011
• Stuxnet and Strategy: A Space Operation in Cyberspace, Lukas Milevski, JFQ-63, October 2011
• Why Iran Didn't Admit Stuxnet Was an Attack, Gary D. Brown, JFQ-63, October 2011
• Protecting Against Predatory Practice (.pdf),  CrossTalk special issue, Sep/Oct 2011
• The Wrong War: The Insistence on Applying Cold War Metaphors to Cybersecurity Is Misplaced and Counterproductive, Peter W. Singer and Noah Shachtman, Brookings, August 2011
• US GAO: "DOD Faces Challenges In Its Cyber Activities" (.pdf), US GAO, July 2011
• DoD Cyber Plan – A Rare (Theoretical) Policy Home Run, Steven Bucci, Security Debrief, July 2011
• US DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (.pdf), US DoD, July 2011
• Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race, Michael Riley and Ashlee Vance, Business Week, June 2011
• Cyber Doctrine - Towards a coherent evolutionary framework for learning resilience (.pdf), JP MacIntosh, J Reid and LR Tyler, June 2011
• Building a New Command in Cyberspace (.pdf), GEN Keith B. Alexander, USA, SSQ Summer 2011
• Deciphering Cyberpower: Strategic Purpose in Peace and War (.pdf), John B. Sheldon, SSQ Summer 2011
• Nine Deadly Cyberwarfare Sins, Jesus Oquendo, Infosec Island, May 2011
• The Developing Legal Framework for Defensive and Offensive Cyber Operations (.pdf), Steven G. Bradbury, Harvard NatSec Journal, March 16th, 2011 April 18th 2011
• Establishing a Framework for Intelligence Education and Training, Rebecca L. Frerichs and Stephen R. Di Rienzo, JFQ-62, April 2011
• Untangling Attribution (.pdf), David D. Clark and Susan Landau, Harvard NatSec Journal, March 16th, 2011
• Rise of a Cybered Westphalian Age (.pdf), Chris C. Demchak and Peter Dombrowski, SSQ Spring 2011
• The Future of Things “Cyber” (.pdf), Gen Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Retired , SSQ Spring 2011
• Retaliatory Deterrence in Cyberspace (.pdf), Eric Sterner, SSQ Spring 2011
• Perspectives for Cyber Strategists on Law for Cyberwar (.pdf), Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF, Retired, SSQ Spring 2011
• World Gone Cyber MAD: How “Mutually Assured Debilitation” Is the Best Hope for Cyber Deterrence (.pdf), Matthew D. Crosston, SSQ Spring 2011
• Nuclear Crisis Management and “Cyberwar”: Phishing for Trouble? (.pdf), Stephen J. Cimbala, SSQ Spring 2011
• Cyberwar as a Confidence Game (.pdf), Martin C. Libicki, SSQ Spring 2011
• Blown to Bits: China’s War in Cyberspace, August-September 2020 (.pdf), Christopher Bronk, SSQ Spring 2011
• Cyberdeterrence between Nation-States: Plausible Strategy or a Pipe Dream? (.pdf), Jonathan Solomon, SSQ Spring 2011
• Mastering the Art of Wiki: Understanding Social Networking and National Security, James Jay Carafano, JFQ-61, January 2011
• Chinese Views on Deterrence, Dean Cheng, JFQ-61, January 2011

2010

• What U.S. Cyber Command Must Do, Wesley R. Andrues, JFQ-59, October 2010
• Cyber Deterrence: Tougher in Theory than in Practice? (.pdf), Will Goodman, SSQ Fall 2010
• War in the fifth domain, The Economist, July 2010
• Cyberwar is fiction, Robert David Graham, Errata Security, June 2010
• Cybersecurity and National Policy (.pdf), Dan Geer, Harvard NatSec Journal, April 7th, 2010
• Cyber Vision and Cyber Force Development (.pdf), Kamal Jabbour, SSQ Spring 2010 
• Article 5 and the Strategic Concept (.pdf), Maria Mälksoom, ICDS, remarks at the NATO Defense College Conference, March 2nd 2010 - and slides (.pdf)

2009

• When Is Deterrence Necessary? Gauging Adversary Intent (.pdf), Gary Schaub Jr., SSQ Winter 2009
• The Monroe Doctrine in Cyberspace (.pdf), testimony by Mary Ann Davidson, March 2009
• Policy and Purpose: The Economy of Deterrence (.pdf), Gen Norton A. Schwartz, USAF, Lt Col Timothy R. Kirk, USAF, SSQ Spring 2009

2008

• USAF Cyberspace Command: To Fly and Fight in Cyberspace (.pdf), Maj Gen William T. Lord, USAF, SSQ Fall 2008

2007

• Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power for the Future? (.pdf), Lt Gen Stephen R. Lorenz, USAF, SSQ Winter 2007

NATO CCD-CoE Conference Proceedings 2009-2011

• Proceedings of the 3rd NATO CCD-COE Conference 2011 (.pdf), June 2011 
• Proceedings of the 2nd NATO CCD-COE Conference 2010, June 2010
• NATO CCD-CoE International Cyber Security Legal & Policy Proceedings 2010, June 2010
• Proceedings of the 1st NATO CCD-COE Conference 2009, June 2009

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