Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive: Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest

Author(s): Robert Chesney, Max Smeets, Amy Zegart, Joshua Rovner, Michael Warner, Jon R. Lindsay, Lennart Maschmeyer, Michael Fischkeller, Richard Harknett, Steven Loleski, Lyu Jinghua, Ciaran Martin, JD Work, Nina A. Kollars
Editor(s): Robert Chesney, Max Smeets
Publisher(s): Georgetown University Press
Publication Year: 2023

In Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive, Robert Chesney and CSS' Max Smeets argue that reframing cyber competition as an intelligence contest will improve our ability to analyze and strategize about cyber events and policy. The contributors to this volume debate the logics and implications of this reframing. They examine this intelligence concept across several areas of cyber security policy and in different national contexts. Taken as a whole, the chapters give rise to a unique dialogue, illustrating areas of agreement and disagreement among leading experts and placing all of it in conversation with the larger fields of international relations and intelligence studies.

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