Myths and Realities of Cyber Warfare
eBook - ePub

Myths and Realities of Cyber Warfare

Conflict in the Digital Realm

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Myths and Realities of Cyber Warfare

Conflict in the Digital Realm

About this book

This illuminating book examines and refines the commonplace "wisdom" about cyber conflict-its effects, character, and implications for national and individual security in the 21st century. "Cyber warfare" evokes different images to different people. This book deals with the technological aspects denoted by "cyber" and also with the information operations connected to social media's role in digital struggle. The author discusses numerous mythologies about cyber warfare, including its presumptively instantaneous speed, that it makes distance and location irrelevant, and that victims of cyber attacks deserve blame for not defending adequately against attacks. The author outlines why several widespread beliefs about cyber weapons need modification and suggests more nuanced and contextualized conclusions about how cyber domain hostility impacts conflict in the modern world. After distinguishing between the nature of warfare and the character of wars, chapters will probe the widespread assumptions about cyber weapons themselves. The second half of the book explores the role of social media and the consequences of the digital realm being a battlespace in 21st-century conflicts. The book also considers how trends in computing and cyber conflict impact security affairs as well as the practicality of people's relationships with institutions and trends, ranging from democracy to the Internet of Things.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781440870804
eBook ISBN
9798216120964
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Eugene H. Spafford
  6. Preface
  7. 1. War’s Character and Nature, and the Stuxnet Trap
  8. 2. Temporal Mythologies of Cyberwar
  9. 3. Mythologies of Cyberwar Effects
  10. 4. The Attribution Paradox and Organizations’ Impact on Cyberwar
  11. 5. Form and Function of Social Media
  12. 6. Unpacking the Mythologies of Social Media
  13. 7. Data as a Battlespace
  14. 8. A Postmodern or a Premodern Future?
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author