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Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth domain" of warfare. Does an aggressive act in the cyber-realm constitute an act of war? If so, what rules should govern such warfare? Are the standard theories of just war capable of analyzing and assessing
this mode of conflict? These changing circumstances present us with a series of questions demanding serious attention. Is there such a thing as cyberwarfare? How do the existing rules of engagement and
theories from the just war tradition apply to cyberwarfare? How should we assess a cyber-attack conducted by a state agency against private enterprise and vice versa? Furthermore, how should actors behave in the cyber-realm? Are there ethical norms that can be applied to the cyber-realm? Are the classic just war constraints of non-combatant immunity and proportionality possible in this realm? Especially given the idea that events that are constrained within the cyber-realm do not directly
physically harm anyone, what do traditional ethics of war conventions say about this new space? These questions strike at the very center of contemporary intellectual discussion over the ethics of war.
In twelve original essays, plus a foreword from John Arquilla and an introduction, Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare, engages these questions head on with contributions from the top scholars working in this field today.
Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth domain" of warfare. Does an aggressive act in the cyber-realm constitute an act of war? If so, what rules should govern such warfare? Are the standard theories of just war capable of analyzing and assessing
this mode of conflict? These changing circumstances present us with a series of questions demanding serious attention. Is there such a thing as cyberwarfare? How do the existing rules of engagement and
theories from the just war tradition apply to cyberwarfare? How should we assess a cyber-attack conducted by a state agency against private enterprise and vice versa? Furthermore, how should actors behave in the cyber-realm? Are there ethical norms that can be applied to the cyber-realm? Are the classic just war constraints of non-combatant immunity and proportionality possible in this realm? Especially given the idea that events that are constrained within the cyber-realm do not directly
physically harm anyone, what do traditional ethics of war conventions say about this new space? These questions strike at the very center of contemporary intellectual discussion over the ethics of war.
In twelve original essays, plus a foreword from John Arquilla and an introduction, Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare, engages these questions head on with contributions from the top scholars working in this field today.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword John Arquilla
Introduction
I Foundational Norms for Cyberwarfare
1. Emerging Norms for Cyberwarfare George R. Lucas, Jr.
2. The Emergence of International Legal Norms for Cyber-Conflict
Michael N. Schmitt and Liis Vihul
3. Distinctive Ethical Issues of Cyberwarfare Randall R. Dipert
II Cyberwarfare and the Just War Tradition
4. Cyber Chevauchées: Cyber War Can Happen David Whetham
5. Cyberwarfare as Ideal War Ryan Jenkins
6. Post-Cyber: Dealing With The Aftermath of Cyber-Attacks Brian
Orend
III ETHOS OF CYBERWARFARE
7. Beyond Tallinn: The Code of the Cyber-Warrior?" Matthew
Beard
8. Immune from Cyber-Fire? The Psychological & Physiological
Effects of Cyberwarfare Daphna Canetti, Michael L. Gross, & Israel
Waismel-Manor
9. Beyond Machines: Humans in Cyber Operations, Espionage, and
Conflict David Danks and Joseph H. Danks
IV CYBERWARFARE, DECEPTION, AND PRIVACY
10. Cyber Perfidy, Ruse, and Deception Heather M. Roff
11. Cyber-attacks and 'Dirty Hands': Cyberwar, Cyber-crimes or
Covert Political Action? Seumas Miller
12. Moral Concerns with Cyber Espionage: Automated Key-word
Searches and Data-Mining Michael Skerker
Index
Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Philosophy and an Adjunct Community Associate Professor in the
Homer Stryker School of Medicine at Western Michigan
University.
Adam Henschke is a Research Fellow at the National Security College
of the Australian National University, College of Asia and the
Pacific.
Bradley Jay Strawser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the
Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey, CA.
"Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare will prove to be an
important book for scholars and practitioners alike. The former
will benefit from the volume's probing chapters across a swath of
issues integral to a more comprehensive conceptualization of
cyberwarfare. The latter will profit from policy implications
abstracted from such rigorous reflection." -- Journal of Military
Ethics
"In summary, this volume is philosophically rich, empirically
informative, and eminently relevant; it is a must-read for anyone
interested in the topic of cyberwarfare or war in general." --
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
"Binary Bullets is an engaging collection of essays on ethics
involved in cyberwarfare. Rather than a shared thesis, divergent
voices and opinions advance the debate...a valuable frame of
reference for ethics perspectives based on the current character of
hostile efforts in the cyber realm." - Humanities and Social
Sciences Online
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