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Weeks 1-6 readings is attached
Based on this week’s readings and the readings from week three, you are to write a 2000 word (-150/+250 words) paper in which you will compare and contrast the policies, guidance, and operations of the United States, Russia, and China in their quest for information dominance. Ensure you discuss the concept of information warfare while avoiding the desire to focus solely on cyber warfare.
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• Chapters 1 & 2 — Libicki, Conquest in Cyberspace
• PowerPoint Slides, Chapters 1 & 2 — in Course Documents, Lecture Notes
• RAND website on Cyber Warfare:http://www.rand.org/topics/cyber-warfare.html
• Center for Strategic and International Studies:https://www.csis.org/programs/technology-policy-program/cybersecurity-and-warfare/other-projects-cybersecurity-0 (access full list as well)
• U.S. Military Opportunities: Information Warfare Concepts of Operationhttps://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1314/MR1314.ch6.pdf
• 2015 Department of State Quadrennial Defense Review Executive Summary and Chapter 2, section 1: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/267396.pdf
• Defense Science Board statement on Cyber Deterrence to Armed Services Committee https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Fields-Miller_03-02-17.pdf
Supplemental Readings:
• Carr, Jeffrey, Inside Cyber Warfare, Chapter 1
• Crosston, Matthew, World Gone Cyber MAD: How “Mutually Assured Debilitation” Is the Best Hope for Cyber Deterrence, http://www.airuniversity.af.mil/Portals/10/SSQ/documents/Volume-05_Issue-1/Crosston.pdf
Read/Review
• Clauswitz, On War, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1946/1946-h/1946-h.htm , Book I
• Lustre, Pia Pamela, Just War Theory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDT5pCxaB0
• Carr, Jeffrey, Inside Cyber Warfare, Chapters 3 & 4
• Chapters 4 & 5 — Libicki, Conquest in Cyberspace
• PowerPoint Slides, Chapters 4 & 5 — in Course Documents, Lecture Notes
Supplemental Reading
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War, available at http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
• Law of Armed Conflict Deskbook, 2012 – Library of Congress. Look at HISTORY OF THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT, http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/LOAC-Deskbook-2012.pdf
Supplemental Websites & Video
• Information Warfare and Information Operations (IW/IO): http://www.nps.edu/Library/Research/Bibliographies/index.html
• Just War Doctrine | Catholic Answers: https://www.catholic.com/just-war
• Just War Theory.com: www.justwartheory.com
Read/Review
• Hutchinson, W. Information Warfare and Deception. http://www.inform.nu/Articles/Vol9/v9p213-223Hutchinson64.pdf
• Lbicki and the Convergence of Information Warfare. http://www.airuniversity.af.mil/Portals/10/SSQ/documents/Volume-11_Issue-1/Libicki.pdf
Supplemental Reading and Websites
• Johnson, L. Scott. CIA Libary. Toward a Functional Model of Information Warfare: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol40no5/pdf/v40i5a07p.pdf
• U.S. Navy. Navajo Code Talkers: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/code-talkers.html
• Elkus, A. Information Warfare: A Historical Approach. https://ctovision.com/information-warfare-a-historical-approach/
• SANS, The Secret History of Cyber War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjB1lrLct4
• Joint IO Center, History and Evolution of IO, http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/io-history/History-and-Evolution-of-IO.ppt
• John Keegan, A History of Warfare (optional book requires purchase)
• CIS 610 related films in the Univ Library: CIS610Films.docx
Read/Review
• Executive Summary, Chapter 1 and 2, Joint Publication 3-13 Information Operations 27 November 2012 with 2014 change, https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=759867
• Department of Defense Cyber Strategy Summary (April 2018) https://media.defense.gov/2018/Sep/18/2002041658/-1/-1/1/CYBER_STRATEGY_SUMMARY_FINAL.PDFNational
• Cyber Strategy: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/National-Cyber-Strategy.pdf
Supplementary Material
• It Takes More than Offensive Capability to Have an Effective Cyberdeterrence Posture, Martin Libicki, Libicki_Deterrence.pdf , also available here: https://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT465.html
• DHS Cyber Strategy (2018). https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhs-cybersecurity-strategy
• Information Warfare and Information Operations (IW/IO): A Bibliography: https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=443229
Read/Review
• Libicki, Martin, Conquest in Cyberspace, Chapter 3
• PowerPoint Slides, Chapter 3 — in Course Documents, Lecture Notes
• FireEye Report on Chinese espionage, https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/current-threats/pdfs/rpt-china-espionage.pdf
• Russia’s Approach to Cyber warfare Pages 3 – 26: Connell, Michael and Vogler, Sarah:https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/DOP-2016-U-014231-1Rev.pdf
• Skim: Bill Hagestead: Future of Chinese Cyber Warfare. http://www.academia.edu/13281612/Future_of_Chinese_Cyber_Warfare
• Skim: Center for Homeland Security Emerging Cyber Threats to the United States: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM08/20160225/104505/HHRG-114-HM08-Wstate-CilluffoF-20160225.pdf
• APT28 Report on Russia by FIREEYE APT28-Center-of-Storm-2017.pdf
Supplemental reading
• Carr, Jeffrey, Inside Cyber Warfare, Chapter 11 & 15
• Mandiant Report on exposing one of China’s espionage units. Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units,
