Bitskrieg
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New technologies are changing how we protect our citizens and wage our wars. Among militaries, everything taken for granted about the ability to maneuver and fight is now undermined by vulnerability to “weapons of mass disruption”: cutting-edge computer worms, viruses, and invasive robot networks. At home, billions of household appliances and other “smart” items that form the Internet of Things risk being taken over, then added to the ranks of massive, malicious “zombie” armies. The age of Bitskrieg is here, bringing vexing threats that range from the business sector to the battlefield. In this new book, world-renowned cybersecurity expert John Arquilla looks unflinchingly at the challenges posed by cyberwarfare – which he argues have been neither met nor mastered. He offers fresh solutions for protecting against enemies that are often anonymous, unpredictable, and capable of projecting force and influence vastly disproportionate to their size, strength, or wealth. The changes called for require radical rethinking of military and security affairs, diplomacy, and even the routines of our daily lives.
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John Arquilla. Bitskrieg
Table of Contents
Guide
Pages
Bitskrieg. The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
1 “Cool War” Rising
More war, less violence?
Rise of the intelligent machines of war
An era of social networks and “netwars”
Notes
2 Pathways to Peril
Cybersecurity strategy needs retooling
What about cyberterrorism?
Will nations engage in “cybotage”?
Notes
3 The Next Face of Battle
The lengthy paths of military innovation – then and now
First rumblings of cyberwar’s specifically military dimension: Bitskrieg
Meet AI Jane
The intelligent machine as strategist?
Alluring prospects, fresh concerns
Notes
4 (Arms) Ctrl+Alt+Esc
The missed opportunity
Past attempts as prologue to future arms control?
Did the United States unwittingly spark the ongoing cyber arms race?
Could a behavior-based cyber arms control agreement really work?
Notes
5 Through a Screen Darkly
Rethinking cybersecurity
Understanding Bitskrieg: The purely military dimension of cyberwar
Toward a behavioral basis for cyber arms control
The cloudy future of armed conflict
Needed: a new mindset and culture
Notes
Further Reading
Index
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John Arquilla
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1810)
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Computer-assisted weapons intended to kill at great ranges with a single shot were now the stock-in-trade of the frontline soldier. He was supported by commanders and staffs who used “battle management” systems to monitor the status of enemy forces, friendly forces, and the all-important movement of logistics. Strategic direction in the form of information, intelligence, orders, and advice arrived in a river of digital data that flowed incessantly.34
In the wake of my work on Desert Storm, I brought insights from this experience to my colleague David Ronfeldt, appearing at his office door one afternoon to say, “I have one word for you, David: ‘Cyberwar.’” And so we were off to the races, striving to make the case for truly revolutionary change in military affairs.
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