Aaron Franklin Brantly

The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations for national security operations. States find themselves in an increasingly interconnected world with a diverse threat spectrum and little understanding of how decisions are made within this amorphous domain.

With The Decision to Attack, Aaron Franklin Brantly investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. In his examination, Brantly contextualizes broader cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility–rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons at the state level.

Discussed:
 The Key Concepts of Cyber
 The Motivation and Utility for Covert Action 
 Digital Power
 Anonymity and Attribution in Cyberspace
 Cyber and Conventional Operations:
 The Dynamics of Conflict
 Defining the Role of Intelligence in Cyberspace 
 How Actors Decide to Use Cyber—a Rational
 Choice Approach
 Cognitive Processes and Decision-Making
 in Cyberspace
 Finding Meaning in the Expected Utility of
 International Cyber Conflict

University of Georgia Press

Studies in Security and International Affairs

The Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making

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