Making Strategic Sense of Cyber Power: Why the Sky Is Not Falling

Carlisle, PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute/Army War College Press, 2013. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling.. xi, [1], 67, [1] p. Endnotes. From an on-line posting: "Cyber is now recognized as an operational domain, but the theory that should explain it strategically is very largely missing. As the military establishment accepted the revolution in military affairs as the big organizing idea of the 1990s, then moved on to transformation in the early-2000s, so the third really big idea of the post-Cold War Era began to secure traction cyber. However, it is one thing to know how to digitize; it is quite another to understand what digitization means strategically. With respect to cyber power, Dr. Colin Gray poses and seeks to answer the most basic of the strategist s questions, So what? Dr. Colin S. Gray is Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, England. Dr. Gray served for 5 years in the Ronald Reagan administration on the President s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. A dual citizen of the United States and UK, he has served as an adviser to both the U.S. and British governments. His government work has included studies of nuclear strategy, arms control, maritime strategy, space strategy, and special forces."