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Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs
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The end of the Cold War ushered in a new phase of global security in which new threats and challenges emanate from non-conventional sources, and in which the weapons and means to prosecute war harness new technology. By the mid-1990's terms such as cyberwar and netwar were being used to explain a new way of thinking about war. The intervening years have seen the development of new defence policies, such as the US 2020 Vision and the Revolution in Military Affairs, whilst the threat of terrorism has become a painful and sad reality. The period has also seen the development and deployment of a range of new technologies for military operations ranging from new smart mechanisms to deliver weapons, to surveillance and communications technologies that can change the very nature of warfare and security. This book attempts to consider this balance between the technologies and policies deployed to respond to terror and the need for human and civil rights.
List of Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Glossary
Preface; G.Chapman, D.Latella & C.Schaerf
PART ONE: CYBERWAR, NETWAR AND THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS; DEFINING THE ISSUES
Introduction: Defining the Issues; P.Trevorrow, S.Wright, D.C.Webb & E.F.Halpin
Vitual Violence and Real War: Playing War in Computer Games: The Battle with Reality ; M.Bayer
Strategic Information Warfare: An Introduction; G.P.Siroli
PART TWO: IMPLICATIONS OF THE PROBLEM
Virtuous Virtual War; J.Rantapelkonen
Risks of Computer-Related Technology; P.G.Neumann
Missile Defence - The First Steps towards War in Space?; D.C.Webb
Technology as Source of Global Turbulence?; S.Fritsch
Nuclear Weapons and the Vision of Command and Control; B.D.Larkin
Information Warfare and the Laws of War; G.Darnton
PART THREE: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES
R.M.A.: The Russian Way; F.Pantelogiannis
An Overview of the Research and Development of Information Warfare in China; Chris Wu
PART FOUR: WHAT IS BEING DONE OR MUST BE DONE?
A Bridge Too Far?; M.Moore
Threat Assessment and Protective Measures: Extending the Asia-Europe Meeting IV Conclusions on Fighting International terrorism and other Instruments to Cyber Terrorism; M.Mauro
Policy Laundering and Other Policy Dynamics; I.R.Hosein
Conclusion; S.Wright, P.Trevorrow, D.Webb & E.Halpin
Index
EDWARD F. HALPIN is a Director of the Praxis Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has researched human and child rights for many years, including work for the European Parliament Scientific and Technical Options Assessment (STOA) Unit. He co-edited the book Human Rights and the Internet (Palgrave Macmillan) and has published many articles in this subject area. In addition to working on social informatics within the School of Information Management, he is involved in teaching peace and conflict resolution in the School of Applied Global Ethics at Leeds Metropolitan University.
PHILIPPA TREVORROW is a PhD graduate from the University of Exeter and works as a Research Officer and Lecturer in Innovation North at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She has been involved with work in the Praxis Centre for the last 2 years, including issues on peace and conflict resolution, youth citizenship and E-government.
DAVID C. WEBB is Professor of Engineering Modelling, Head of the Centre for Applied Research in Engineering and a Director of the Praxis Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He obtained a DPhil in Space Physics in 1975 from the University of York and, after periods as a post-doctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories and the University of York, joined the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the MoD in London in 1978. He moved to the Computer Unit at Leeds Metropolitan University in 1979 and then into the School of Engineering in the early 1980s. He has published widely on the application of engineering modelling and on nuclear disarmament and the militarization of space. He is currently working with colleagues in the Praxis Centre on the Study of Information and Technology in Peace, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights.
STEVE WRIGHT is a Visiting Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Chair of Privacy International and the former Director of the Omega Foundation. His recent EU research tracked the armourers of the torturers. Wright is best known for his European Parliamentary report highlighting the US global telecommunications interception network - Echelon.
Description
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new phase of global security in which new threats and challenges emanate from non-conventional sources, and in which the weapons and means to prosecute war harness new technology. By the mid-1990's terms such as cyberwar and netwar were being used to explain a new way of thinking about war. The intervening years have seen the development of new defence policies, such as the US 2020 Vision and the Revolution in Military Affairs, whilst the threat of terrorism has become a painful and sad reality. The period has also seen the development and deployment of a range of new technologies for military operations ranging from new smart mechanisms to deliver weapons, to surveillance and communications technologies that can change the very nature of warfare and security. This book attempts to consider this balance between the technologies and policies deployed to respond to terror and the need for human and civil rights.
Contents
List of Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Glossary
Preface; G.Chapman, D.Latella & C.Schaerf
PART ONE: CYBERWAR, NETWAR AND THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS; DEFINING THE ISSUES
Introduction: Defining the Issues; P.Trevorrow, S.Wright, D.C.Webb & E.F.Halpin
Vitual Violence and Real War: Playing War in Computer Games: The Battle with Reality ; M.Bayer
Strategic Information Warfare: An Introduction; G.P.Siroli
PART TWO: IMPLICATIONS OF THE PROBLEM
Virtuous Virtual War; J.Rantapelkonen
Risks of Computer-Related Technology; P.G.Neumann
Missile Defence - The First Steps towards War in Space?; D.C.Webb
Technology as Source of Global Turbulence?; S.Fritsch
Nuclear Weapons and the Vision of Command and Control; B.D.Larkin
Information Warfare and the Laws of War; G.Darnton
PART THREE: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES
R.M.A.: The Russian Way; F.Pantelogiannis
An Overview of the Research and Development of Information Warfare in China; Chris Wu
PART FOUR: WHAT IS BEING DONE OR MUST BE DONE?
A Bridge Too Far?; M.Moore
Threat Assessment and Protective Measures: Extending the Asia-Europe Meeting IV Conclusions on Fighting International terrorism and other Instruments to Cyber Terrorism; M.Mauro
Policy Laundering and Other Policy Dynamics; I.R.Hosein
Conclusion; S.Wright, P.Trevorrow, D.Webb & E.Halpin
Index
Authors
EDWARD F. HALPIN is a Director of the Praxis Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has researched human and child rights for many years, including work for the European Parliament Scientific and Technical Options Assessment (STOA) Unit. He co-edited the book Human Rights and the Internet (Palgrave Macmillan) and has published many articles in this subject area. In addition to working on social informatics within the School of Information Management, he is involved in teaching peace and conflict resolution in the School of Applied Global Ethics at Leeds Metropolitan University.
PHILIPPA TREVORROW is a PhD graduate from the University of Exeter and works as a Research Officer and Lecturer in Innovation North at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. She has been involved with work in the Praxis Centre for the last 2 years, including issues on peace and conflict resolution, youth citizenship and E-government.
DAVID C. WEBB is Professor of Engineering Modelling, Head of the Centre for Applied Research in Engineering and a Director of the Praxis Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He obtained a DPhil in Space Physics in 1975 from the University of York and, after periods as a post-doctoral researcher at Bell Laboratories and the University of York, joined the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence at the MoD in London in 1978. He moved to the Computer Unit at Leeds Metropolitan University in 1979 and then into the School of Engineering in the early 1980s. He has published widely on the application of engineering modelling and on nuclear disarmament and the militarization of space. He is currently working with colleagues in the Praxis Centre on the Study of Information and Technology in Peace, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights.
STEVE WRIGHT is a Visiting Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Chair of Privacy International and the former Director of the Omega Foundation. His recent EU research tracked the armourers of the torturers. Wright is best known for his European Parliamentary report highlighting the US global telecommunications interception network - Echelon.
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