Cyber Operations Reading List

A recommended list of books and articles related to Cyber/Information Operations

Books:

Clarke, Richard. Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to do About it

Forest, James. Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in  War of Ideas

Hess, Stephen and Kalb, Marvin. The Media and the War on Terrorism

Kramer, Franklin. Cyberpower and National Security

Libicki, Martin.  Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

McPherson, Steven and Zimmerman, Glenn.  Securing Freedom in the Global Commons

Montgomery, Kathryn. Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet

National Research Council. Cyberattack Capabilities:  Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding US Aquisition and Use

Rid, Thomas and Heckler, Mark. War 2.0: Irregular Warfare in the Information Age

Waller, Michael. Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War

Studies/Reports:

International Telecommunications Union. Measuring the Information Society 2010. Annual Report to the United Nations

Krekel, Bryan. Capability of the People’s Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation. Report for the US – China Economic and Security Review Commission

National Defense University. Global Strategic Assessment 2009 Chapter 3

RAND. Chinese Use of Cyberspace as an Anti-Access Strategy

RAND. Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Win Popular Support in Theaters of Operation

US Army.  Cyberspace Operations Concept Capability Plan 2016-2028

US Navy. The US Navy’s Vision For Information Dominance

Wilson, Clay. “Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, and Cyberwar: Capabilities and Related Policy Issues,” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress

Articles:

Bowdish, Randall. “Information-Age Psycological Operations.” Military Review, 1999: 28-36

Economist, “Cyberwar: War in the Fifth Domain.” July, 2010

Eriksson, Johan, Giacomello, and Giampiero. “The Information Revolution, Security and International Relations: (IR)relevant Theory.” International Political Science Review, 2006: 221-244.

Frantz, Douglas. “Cyberspaces Gives al Qaeda Refuge.” Los Anagles Times, August 15, 2004

Grygiel, Jakub. “The Power of Statelessness.” Policy Review, 2009

Kelley, John and Almann, Lauri. “eWMDs.” Policy Review 152, 2009: 39-50.

O’Harrow, Robert. “Spies’ Battleground Turns Virtual.” Washington Post, February 6, 2008.

Singer, P.W. “Meet the Sims, ….and Shoot Them. The Rise of Militainment.” Foreign Policy, April 2010: 91-95.

Thomas, Timothy. “New Developments in Chinese Strategic Psychological Warfare.” Special Warfare, 2003: 2-11.

Weimann, Gabriel. “Cyberterrorism: The Sum of All Fears?” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2005: 129-149