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Bitskrieg
The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare
John Arquilla
polity
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Names: Arquilla, John, author.
Title: Bitskrieg : the new challenge of cyberwarfare / John Arquilla.
Other titles: New challenge of cyberwarfare
Description: Cambridge ; Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Pioneer of the concept of “netwar” explains why Bitskrieg is here to stay”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020057162 (print) | LCCN 2020057163 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509543625 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509543632 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509543649 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Cyberspace operations (Military science) | Information warfare. | Deterrence (Strategy) | Computer security.
Classification: LCC U167.5.C92 A77 2021 (print) | LCC U167.5.C92 (ebook) | DDC 355.4/1--dc23
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Dedication
For Peter and Dorothy Denning
Epigraph
The modern age has a false sense of superiority because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1810)
Knowledge must become capability.
Carl von Clausewitz (1830)
[Cyber attacks] can actually bring us to our knees.
Admiral Mike Mullen (2011)
There are only two types of companies: Those that have been hacked and those that will be.
Robert Mueller (2012)
Acknowledgments
It has been my privilege, over the past four decades, to sit beside and learn from some of the finest minds, and individuals, dedicated to understanding the implications of the Information Age for society and security. Early on, at RAND, Willis Ware made me aware that, for all the good connectivity brings, vulnerability is its inevitable flip side. Tom Rona understood that cyberwar was going to have profound effects, one day, on battle. Captain Richard O’Neill, USN (Ret.) knew this, too, and convinced higher-ups in the Pentagon that the work my research partner David Ronfeldt and I were doing merited their support. Dick also helped found our Highlands Forum, which had a 20-year run raising awareness about Cyber-Age issues that matter. Technology journalist John Markoff and futurist Paul Saffo are both responsible for expanding my mind. As are some of the world’s top hackers, especially “M” and “MHN.” At the Naval Postgraduate School, Peter and Dorothy Denning, to whom this book is dedicated, have shared their insights and helped me to sharpen my thinking. As has Ryan Maness. For many years, the Honorable Leon Panetta and his wife Sylvia have welcomed me into the cyber activities of the Institute they oversee. At Polity, Louise Knight is all one could ever ask for in an editor: affirming, wise, assertive when needed.
Foreword
