The Subversive Trilemma: Why Cyber Operations Fall Short of Expectations


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2021

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Journal Article

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Abstract

Many expect cyber operations to provide independent utility in both warfare and low-intensity competition, but they tend to fall short of their promise, due to the subversive trilemma of cyber operations, whereby speed, intensity, and control are negatively correlated. They thus pose a trilemma for actors because a gain in one variable tends to produce losses across the other two variables. In this International Security article, CSS' Lennart Maschmeyer provides empirical support for this argument using a case study of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

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46 (2)

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51 - 90

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MIT Press

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Cyber operations; Russo-Ukrainian conflict

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03515 - Wenger, Andreas / Wenger, Andreas check_circle

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