Title Information
Title
The Nature of Strategic Instability in Cyberspace
Name: Personal
Name Part
Libicki, Martin
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
author
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
articles
Origin Information
Date Created (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2011
Language (usage="primary")
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Physical Description
digitalOrigin
born digital
Extent
pp. 71-79
Related Item: Host
Title Information
Title
Brown Journal of World Affairs
Identifier: ISSN
1080-0786
Part
Part Detail: volume
Part Number
18
Part Caption
no.
Part Detail: issue
Part Number
1
Part Caption
no.
Extent (unit="page")
Start
71
End
79
Abstract (lang="eng")
The article highlights issues linked with strategic stability in cyberspace as of September 2011. The ability of cyberspace to cause strategic destabilization is limited by the continued existence of nuclear weapons and a state's cybercapabilities cannot be disarmed by another state through cyberwar alone. The author asserts that cyberspace operations can rarely break computer systems and devices controlled by such systems. Fast uncontrollable action-reaction cycles would not be the result of the primary characteristics of cyberwar, such as its temporary effects and the impossibility of disarming cyberwarriors.
Identifier: DOI
10.26300/f8ad-pp83