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Is Cyber Strategy Possible?
Real progress has been made in developing an understanding of how to more effectively employ cyber capabilities to achieve specific strategic objectives
Published on Apr 18, 2019
Source: Washington Quarterly
Sorting through cyber strategy starts with a fundamental framing question: does “cyber” provide a new tool (capabilities) for traditional state pursuits, a new domain (sea, air, space), or a new dimension of relations between peace and war? Real progress has been made in developing an understanding of how to more effectively employ cyber capabilities to achieve specific strategic objectives, but there may ultimately be no single comprehensive cyber strategy for statecraft.
This article was originally published by the Washington Quarterly.
About the Author
Wyatt Hoffman
Former Senior Research Analyst, Cyber Policy Initiative
Wyatt Hoffman was a senior research analyst with the Nuclear Policy Program and the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Cyberspace and Geopolitics: Assessing Global Cybersecurity Norm Processes at a Crossroads
- Governing Private Sector Self-Help in Cyberspace: Analogies From the Physical WorldPaper
Wyatt Hoffman, Steven Nyikos
Recent Work
Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.
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