Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like
the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber
attacks and to be resil-ient against a successful attack or
recurring campaign. Addressing the con-cerns of both theorists and
those on the national security front lines, Chris C. Demchak
presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected,
ever-messier, more surprising cybered world and examines the
institutional adaptations required of our defense, intelligence,
energy, and other critical sectors for national security.
Demchak introduces a strategy of "security resilience" against
surprise attacks for a cybered world that is divided between
modern, digitally vulner-able city-states and more dysfunctional
global regions. Its key concepts build on theories of international
relations, complexity in social-technical systems, and
organizational-institutional adaptation. Demchak tests the strategy
for reasonableness in history's few examples of states disrupting
rather than conquering and being resilient to attacks, including
ancient Athens and Sparta, several British colonial wars, and two
American limited wars. She applies the strategy to modern
political, social, and technical challenges and presents three
kinds of institutional adaptation that predicate the success of the
security resilience strategy in response. Finally, Demchak
discusses implications for the future including new forms of cyber
aggression like the Stuxnet worm, the rise of the cyber-command
concept, and the competition between the U.S. and China as global
cyber leaders.
"Wars of Disruption and Resilience" offers a blueprint for a
national cyber-power strategy that is long in time horizon,
flexible in target and scale, and practical enough to maintain the
security of a digitized nation facing violent cybered conflict.
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