The Decision to Attack Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision Making

Brantly, Aaron Franklin

ISBN 10: 0820349208 / ISBN 13: 9780820349206

Published by Univ of Georgia Pr, 2016

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232 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Decision to Attack Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision Making
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820349208
• ISBN 13: 9780820349206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.48 kilograms

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Synopsis

The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations. States find themselves in an increasingly interconnected world with a diverse threat spectrum and little understanding of how decisions are made within this amorphous domain.

With The Decision to Attack, Aaron Franklin Brantly investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. In his examination, Brantly contextualizes broader cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility–rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons at the state level.

Discussed:
The Key Concepts of Cyber
The Motivation and Utility for Covert Action
Digital Power
Anonymity and Attribution in Cyberspace
Cyber and Conventional Operations:
The Dynamics of Conflict
Defining the Role of Intelligence in Cyberspace
How Actors Decide to Use Cyber―a Rational
Choice Approach
Cognitive Processes and Decision-Making
in Cyberspace
Finding Meaning in the Expected Utility of
International Cyber Conflict

About the Author

AARON FRANKLIN BRANTLY is an assistant professor of international relations and cyber in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy, cyber policy fellow at the Army Cyber Institute, and cyber fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center.