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Cyber War Will Not Take Place

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ISBN-10: 0199330638

ISBN-13: 9780199330638

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thomas Rid

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'Cyber war is coming,' announced a land- mark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the 'fifth domain' of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really coming? Has war indeed entered the fifth domain?Cyber War Will Not Take Place cuts through the hype and takes a fresh look at cyber security. Thomas Rid argues that the focus on war and winning distracts from the real challenge of cyberspace: non-violent confrontation that may rival or even replace violence in surprising ways.The threat consists of three different vectors: espionage, sabotage, and subversion. The author traces the most significant hacks…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.58" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Argument
What is Cyber War?
Violence
Cyber Weapons
Sabotage
Espionage
Subversion
Attribution
Beyond Cyber War
Notes
Bibliography
Index