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How Rival States Employ Cyber Strategy
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The central question of this book is: how do states use cyber strategies to influence their rivals? This chapter introduces a theory of cyber coercion that considers the three main types of cyber strategies: disruption, espionage, and degradation. As a form of covert action, cyber coercion can represent ambiguous signals designed to probe adversary intentions and manage escalation risks. This chapter dissects the core logic of coercion and coercive diplomacy as they apply to cyber operations. After defining coercion and establishing the expected threshold of concessions based on surveying multiple studies, it then highlights debates about power and resolve in the traditional coercion literature to extract important considerations for empirical investigation. The inherent ambiguity, primacy of signaling, and temporary effects in cyber operations distort power and resolve in the digital domain.
Title: How Rival States Employ Cyber Strategy
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The central question of this book is: how do states use cyber strategies to influence their rivals? This chapter introduces a theory of cyber coercion that considers the three main types of cyber strategies: disruption, espionage, and degradation.
As a form of covert action, cyber coercion can represent ambiguous signals designed to probe adversary intentions and manage escalation risks.
This chapter dissects the core logic of coercion and coercive diplomacy as they apply to cyber operations.
After defining coercion and establishing the expected threshold of concessions based on surveying multiple studies, it then highlights debates about power and resolve in the traditional coercion literature to extract important considerations for empirical investigation.
The inherent ambiguity, primacy of signaling, and temporary effects in cyber operations distort power and resolve in the digital domain.
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