Scholars, policy analysts, and information technology executives consider current and future cyber threats. They discuss various strategies to advance and defend national interests in cyberspace, contrast the US approach with European and Chinese views, and posit a way of using cyber capabilities in war. Fundamentally, this book establishes a coherent framework to help strategists and policymakers understand the ways in which cyberspace has become a critical new domain for national security.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Thinking about cyber -- Introduction : national security and cyberspace / Derek S. Reveron -- Speculative security / Patrick Jagoda -- Operational considerations in cyberattack and cyberexploitation / Herbert Lin -- Joining cyber crime and cyber terrorism : a likely scenario / Steven Bucci -- Armed conflict and cyber defense -- Inter arma silent leges redux? : the law of armed conflict and cyber-conflict / David P. Fidler -- The emerging structure of strategic cyber offense, defense, and deterrence / Richard B. Andres -- A new framework for cyber-deterrence / Jeffrey R. Cooper -- Cybered conflict, cyber power, and security resilience as strategy / Chris Demchak -- National approaches to cybersecurity and cyberwar -- Persistent enemies and cyberwar : rivalry relations in an age of information warfare / Brandon Valeriano and Ryan Maness -- Transatlantic cyber / James Joyner -- The bear goes digital : Russia and its cyber capabilities / Nikolas K. Gvosdev -- China in cyberspace / Nigel Inkster -- Toward a theory of cyberpower : strategic purpose in peace and war / John B. Sheldon -- Conclusion / Derek S. Reveron -- About the contributors -- Index.