The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II, Editor of the U.S. Army War College Quarterly, Parameters, will speak on "War and Peace and the Gray Zone Between." Echevarria offers a new framework to policy makers and strategists for situations that are "not war and not peace."
Professor Echevarria holds a doctorate in modern history from Princeton University, and is the author of four books, including After Clausewitz (Kansas 2001), Imagining Future War (2007), Clausewitz and Contemporary War (Oxford 2007) and Reconsidering the American Way of War (Georgetown 2014), as well as more than ninety articles and monographs on strategic thinking, military theory, and military history. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College. He has also completed a NATO Fulbright Fellowship, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University in 2011-12. Echevarria also serves as the current Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies at the US Army War College.
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