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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

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By Wyatt Hoffman
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.

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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.

Wyatt Hoffman
Former Senior Research Analyst, Cyber Policy Initiative
TechnologyNorth AmericaUnited StatesIran

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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