Overview
The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations. States find themselves in an increasingly interconnected world with a diverse threat spectrum and little understanding of how decisions are made within this amorphous domain. With The Decision to Attack, Aaron Franklin Brantly investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. In his examination, Brantly contextualizes broader cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility–rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons at the state level. Topics Discussed: The Key Concepts of Cyber The Motivation and Utility for Covert Action Digital Power Anonymity and Attribution in Cyberspace Cyber and Conventional Operations: The Dynamics of Conflict Defining the Role of Intelligence in Cyberspace How actors decide to use cyber—a rational choice approach Cognitive Processes and Decision-Making in Cyberspace Finding meaning in the expected utility of international cyber conflict
Full Product Details
Author: Aaron Franklin Brantly
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.477kg
ISBN: 9780820349206
ISBN 10: 0820349208
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 30 April 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"Aaron Brantly's The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making provides an authoritative framework to understand this type of decision made by unitary state actors. He masterfully provides the empirical evidence and theoretical foundation for an expected utility rational choice decision making model for the instigation of cyber attacks. . . . The Decision to Attack is definitely worthwhile.--Scott E. Jasper ""International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence"""
Aaron Brantly's The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making provides an authoritative framework to understand this type of decision made by unitary state actors. He masterfully provides the empirical evidence and theoretical foundation for an expected utility rational choice decision making model for the instigation of cyber attacks. . . . The Decision to Attack is definitely worthwhile.--Scott E. Jasper International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
Author Information
Aaron Franklin Brantly is an assistant professor and Cyber Policy Fellow at the United States Military Academy and has served as a senior program officer at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
