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The evolving relationship of intelligence in support of cyber operations
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Work, J. D. (2023) The evolving relationship of intelligence in support of cyber operations. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
The emerging cyber intelligence mission has increasingly occupied practitioner and decisionmaker attention in competition, crisis and conflict. Understanding the ways of knowing in, through, and about the cyber domain has become critical to national security and commerce. The core purpose of intelligence – whether framed as an activity, product, or organization – is to create decision advantage. This thesis examines the determinants of decision advantage in cyber operations. It focuses on analysis of decision tradeoffs within the terrain of uncertainty, and the means by which intelligence serves to bound these uncertainties in offensive, defensive, and countering missions. The advantage thus gained by intelligence serves a key role in contesting control of cyberspace, and even more critically in knowing what kind of contest that a sovereign is engaged in – whether a contest of arms, a contest of initiative, or a contest of intelligence itself. These interactions are explored, offering new insights into ongoing debates of strategy – including major questions of persistence, deterrence, and escalation. Further conclusions are offered to connect intelligence theory to praxis, encompassing diagnosis of context collision across multiple epistemic communities, and resulting challenges of decision alignment, with implications for tradecraft assurance and innovation to guard against recurring analytic pathologies.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cyber intelligence (Computer security), Computer security, Cyberspace operations (International law), Electronic intelligence | ||||
Official Date: | July 2023 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Politics and International Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Aldrich, Richard | ||||
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Extent: | 443 pages : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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