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Framing cyber warfare: an analyst’s perspective

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  • Anthony Ween
  • Peter Dortmans
  • Nitin Thakur
  • Cayt Rowe

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Understanding how new phenomenon impacts complex systems requires the capacity to examine and characterize how the system might respond. A soft-systems approach to analyzing cyber warfare can be flexible enough to deal with the inherent complexity and rates of change and still support a more rigorous representation. This paper presents high-level models that use distinct lenses to provide an understanding of cyber implications in the system. These reference models are intended to allow a consistent approach to be applied across conventional and cyber warfare domains and provide a common language to underpin debate and discussion.

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  • Anthony Ween & Peter Dortmans & Nitin Thakur & Cayt Rowe, 2019. "Framing cyber warfare: an analyst’s perspective," The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, , vol. 16(3), pages 335-345, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joudef:v:16:y:2019:i:3:p:335-345
    DOI: 10.1177/1548512917725620
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