Publication

This brief outlines four groups of strategists: cyberprophets, cyberpriests, cyberdetectives, and cyberdesigners, and, as a logical extension, four kinds of strategies now populating the miasma of conflicting voices in Washington. These are ideal types defined by their assertions in and around the cybersecurity discussions. The world of “cybered conflict” is one in which even the part-time foreign attacker can to an unprecedented degree flexibly choose the scale, proximity, and precision of any attempted attack. They can at their leisure aim at any state’s military, government or commercial networks, or those of any of our allies, or associates.