Book Review: On Cyber: Towards an Operational Art for Cyber Conflict
By Gregory Conti and David Raymond: Reviewed by: Dr. Jan Kallberg
| December 18, 2018
The core of Conti and Raymond’s On Cyber: Towards an Operational Art for Cyber Conflict is found in the preface under the self-explanatory title, “Why this book?” and embedded in the following sentence: “The lack of an operational art for cyberspace operations is the inspiration for this book.” Conti and Raymond have identified a wide and open gap in the cyber literature, found not in the cyber hinterlands, but in the pivotal question of, “how do you do cyber operations?” We are now about 20 years into cyber – 20 years ago, cyber defense and cyber operations were all but unknown, and had less than a few references in the now-defunct Alta Vista search engine – and, discussions within the cyber community still occur mainly at the strategic and conceptual level, or at the purely tactical level. The larger policy debate is driven by a non-technical community, and the tactical level quickly becomes highly technical as a subset of computer science.
Book Review: On Cyber: Towards an Operational Art for Cyber Conflict