The author introduces a strategy of "security resilience" against surprise attacks for a cybered world that is divided between modern, digitally vulnerable city states and more dysfunctional global regions. Its key concepts build on theories of international relations, complexity in social/technical systems, and organizational/institutional adaptation. She tests the strategy for reasonableness in history's few examples of states disrupting rather than conquering and being resilient to attacks, including ancient Athens and Sparta, several British colonial wars, and two American limited wars. She applies the strategy to modern political, social, and technical challenges and presents three kinds of institutional adaptation that predicate the success of the security resilience strategy in response. Finally, the implications are discussed for the future including new forms of cyber aggression like the Stuxnet worm, the rise of the cyber-command concept, and the competition between the U.S. and China as global cyber leaders. This book offers a blueprint for a national cyberpower strategy that is long in time horizon, flexible in target and scale, and practical enough to maintain the security of a digitized nation facing violent cybered conflict.

Globalization and spread of cybered conflict -- Emerging uncivil cybered international system -- Challenge to international relations theory -- Syncretic reframing : security resilience strategy for a cybered world -- Security resilience strategy : linking framework and tools -- History's experiments in security resilience -- Case studies of city-state security strategies -- Greek and Italian city-state wars of disruption -- British and U.S. small wars of disruption -- Lessons for disruption in a security resilience strategy -- Challenges in a new strategy for cybered threats -- Political acceptance of cybered threat in democratic city-states -- Technical design for cybered conflict -- Operational constraints on implementation of disruption -- Institutional design for cybered power and national security -- Honest joint consultation -- knowledge nexus -- Comprehensive data -- privacy in behavior-based adaptations -- Collaborative actionable knowledge : the atrium model -- Gathering what exists today -- Disruption and resilience for national security and power in a cybered world -- Marks of the new cybered age : sovereignty, disruption, and resilience -- Inklings of the future : the rise of the cyber command -- Adapting the social contract for cybered uncertainty.