The Elements of an Intelligence Contest / Joshua Rovner -- The Character of Strategic Cyberspace Competition and the Role of Ideology / Michael Warner -- Hidden Dangers in the American Military Solution to a Large-Scale Intelligence Problem / Jon R. Lindsay -- Secrecy in Strategy / Lennart Maschmeyer -- Cyber Persistence, Intelligence Contests, and Strategic Competition / Michael Fischerkeller & Richard Harknett -- The United States and Legitimizing Rules of the Game / Steven Loleski -- A Chinese Perspective on the New Intelligence Framework to Understand National Competition in Cyberspace / Lyu Jinghua -- Russia's Holistic Conceptual Framework for Cyber Activity / Valeriy Akimenko and Keir Giles -- The Development of United Kingdom's Cyber Posture / Ciaran Martin -- Private Actors and the Intelligence Contest in Cyber Conflict / JD Work -- Taking Non-State Actors Seriously (No, Seriously) / Nina A. Kollars.
Summary:
"The idea of "cyber war" has played a dominant role both in academic and popular discourses concerning the nature of statecraft and conflict in the cyber domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of cyber competition. Are cyber activities actually more like an intelligence contest, where both states and nonstate actors grapple for advantage below the threshold of war? This book debates that question. The contributors unpack the conceptual and theoretical logics of the framing of cyber competition as an intelligence contest, particularly in the areas of information theft and manipulation. Taken as a whole, the chapters give rise to a unique dialogue, illustrating areas of agreement and disagreement among leading experts, and placing all of it in conversation with the larger fields of international relations and intelligence studies"-- Provided by publisher
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