Journal Article

Crafting and managing effects: the evolution of the profession of arms

Pierce, Terry C, Rokke, Ervin J, Stavridis, James G

2016

Overview

Recent operations conducted against US businesses and citizens have reemphasized a critical vulnerability in how the US Government thinks about and defends itself against nonkinetic instruments of power. This is particularly true in the manmade domain of cyber. In December 2014, a high-profile breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment was linked to a state-sponsored cyber attack by North Korea. Apparently, North Korea was motivated by opposition to the film The Interview, a comedy about the assassination of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un. The Obama administration responded to Pyongyang's alleged cyber attacks on Sony by imposing sanctions against the country's lucrative arms industry. National security conflicts are increasingly a battle of wits, and people must update the way we use them to match the increasingly complicated world in which we live. The challenge goes well beyond what we think; it is also how we think about problem sets that rests on new realities and principles that render traditional linear approaches insufficient, if not irrelevant.

• Publisher: National Defense University
• Subject: Computer crimes / Consumer electronics industry / Hoffmann, Stanley / Video production companies