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.”
Biography
Benjamin Grass was born in Eau Claire, WI, and was raised in Southeastern Wisconsin. He was commissioned a 2ndLt in the Marine Corps in May 1999, having completed his undergraduate education in Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He most recently served as the Commanding Officer of the 1st Intelligence Battalion at Camp Pendleton, California. He served in 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq in 2003, and later returned as an advisor to the Iraqi Army with whom he saw combat in Anbar Province in 2006-07. In 2014, B.J. returned to Iraq as an intel officer in Anbar Province. He has done tours with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the National Counter-terrorism Center, and at the Marine’s Intel School.
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