Cyberwar and Information Warfare

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ISBN: 9781848213043 | 1848213042
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Copyright: 8/15/2011

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Through an empirical, conceptual, and theoretical approach, this book includes the cogitations of five of the leading French researchers and experts in the fields of cybersecurity, cyberdefense, and information warfare. The aim of this book is to analyze the processes of information warfare and cyberwarfare through historical, operational, and strategic perspectives of cyberattacks.

Introduction	p. ix
List of Acronyms	p. xvii
Cyberwar and its Borders	p. 1
The seduction of cyberwar	p. 2
Desirable, vulnerable and frightening information	p. 4
Conflict and its dimensions	p. 6
The Helm and space	p. 8
Between knowledge and violence	p. 11
Space, distance and paths	p. 13
The permanency of war	p. 16
No war without borders	p. 22
The enemy and the sovereign	p. 25
Strengths and weaknesses	p. 27
Bibliography	p. 29
War of Meaning, Cyberwar and Democracies	p. 31
introduction	p. 31
Informational environment, a new operating space for strategy	p. 34
War and information: stakes for the West	p. 35
Strategy in the information environment	p. 44
Winning the battle of legitimacies	p. 52
Influence strategy: defeating and limiting armed force physical involvement	p. 59
Describing the aggressor	p. 60
Armed forces and the information environment	p. 65
The need for moral force	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 78
Bibliography	p. 79
Intelligence, the First Defense? Information Warfare and Strategic Surprise	p. 83
Information warfare, information and war	p. 85
Intelligence and strategic surprise	p. 90
Strategic surprise	p. 91
Perception of surprise	p. 94
Perception of the possibility of surprise	p. 95
Strategic surprise and information warfare	p. 98
Concluding remarks: surprise in strategic studies	p. 106
Bibliography	p. 109
Cyberconflict: Stakes of Power	p. 113
Stakes of power	p. 113
Power relations	p. 116
Expression of sovereignty	p. 154
Cyberpower	p. 155
Measuring and locating power	p. 159
Limits of exercising power	p. 175
The Monroe doctrine	p. 179
Globalization	p. 181
Shock theories	p. 181
Naval and maritime power strategy	p. 184
Air/space and cybernetic power: analogies	p. 194
Cyberconflict/cyber weapons, chemical/biological weapons: comparisons	p. 203
Cyberconflict/cyber weapons, Cold War, nuclear weapons: comparisons	p. 204
Cyberconflict and new wars	p. 213
The Stuxnet affair	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 240
Operational Aspects of a Cyberattack: Intelligence, Planning and Conduct	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
Towards a broader concept of cyberwar	p. 247
War and cyberwar: common ground	p. 247
New orders in cyberwar	p. 249
Who are cyberwarriors?	p. 252
Is formalization possible?	p. 253
Concept of critical infrastructure	p. 253
Generalized definition of the notion of critical infrastructure	p. 254
System interdependence	p. 257
Different phases of a cyberattack	p. 260
Intelligence phase	p. 260
Planning phase	p. 266
Conduct phase	p. 267
A few "elementary building blocks"	p. 268
General tactical framework	p. 268
Attacks on people	p. 270
Opinion manipulation and area control	p. 271
Military computer attack in a conventional operation	p. 273
Example scenario	p. 273
Tactical scenario	p. 274
The order of events	p. 277
Analysis	p. 278
Conclusion	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 282
Riots in Xinjiang and Chinese Information Warfare	p. 285
Xinjiang region: an explosive context	p. 287
Ethnic tensions, extremism, separatism, terrorism and violence in Xinjiang	p. 287
Xinjiang: a strategic region	p. 291
Riots, July 2009	p. 291
Chronology of facts	p. 291
Reasons for the riots	p. 295
The riots faced with international public opinion	p. 297
Impacts on Chinese cyberspace: hacktivism and site defacing	p. 303
The Internet in Xinjiang: a region dependent on information systems?	p. 303
Website defacement in a crisis context	p. 305
Defining the dynamics of the relationship between "political events" and "site defacement"	p. 309
Managing the "cyberspace" risk by the Chinese authorities	p. 339
Inaccessible sites	p. 339
Cutting off telephone communications	p. 344
The risks of cyberspace	p. 345
Dealing with the media and information content	p. 351
After the incidents: communication, reaction, control, legislation	p. 353
Chinese information warfare through the Xinjiang crisis	p. 354
Xinjiang, land of information warfare	p. 355
Chinese information warfare in the prism of Xinjiang management crisis approaches	p. 356
Conclusion	p. 361
Bibliography	p. 364
Special Territories	p. 367
Hong Kong: intermediate zone	p. 367
Strategic and political situation in Hong Kong	p. 367
Hong Kong's cyberspace	p. 369
A framework suited to crises	p. 371
Hong Kong's vulnerable cyberspace	p. 373
The Google affair	p. 377
North Korea: unknown figure of asymmetrical threat	p. 379
Cyberattacks blamedonNorthKorea	p. 381
North Korea's capability in cyberwar	p. 385
The Cheonan affair	p. 388
In the face of North Korea: the capabilities of South Korea	p. 390
Bibliography	p. 393
Conclusion	p. 395
List of Authors	p. 401
Index	p. 403
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