Cyber Warfare Ethics

Cyber technology gives states the ability to accomplish effects that once required kinetic action. These effects can now be achieved with cyber means in a manner that is covert, deniable, cheap, and technologically feasible for many governments. In some cases, cyber means are morally preferable to conventional military operations, but in other cases, cyber's unique qualities can lead to greater mischief than governments would have chanced using kinetic means. This volume addresses the applicability of traditional military ethics to cyber operations, jus ad vim (an emerging sub-field governing grey zone or soft war operations), the rights of the targets of cyber operations, cyber sabotage, cyber surveillance, phase zero operations, psychological operations, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic ethics. Uniquely, it includes a number of cyber incidents that do not currently exist as case studies and have not received much public attention. This volume has been designed to work as a handbook for military and security professionals involved in cyber training, teaching, and application.

Author: Michael Skerker
Publisher: Howgate Publishing Limited
Published: 10/15/2021
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781912440269

About the Author
Skerker, Michael: - Michael Skerker is a Professor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law department at the U.S. Naval Academy. His research focuses on police, military, and intelligence ethics. Publications include articles and chapters on ethics and asymmetrical war, collective responsibility, police ethics, intelligence ethics, interrogation/torture, and the book An Ethics of Interrogation (University of Chicago Press, 2010). His most recent book The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just War (Routledge, 2020) explores the moral status of combatants fighting in unjust wars. Prof. Skerker is also the co-editor of Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Military Virtues (Howgate Publishing, 2019). Prof. Skerker is on the advisory board of the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group and consults with businesses, law enforcement, and the military.Whetham, David: - David Whetham is Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He is the Director of the King's Centre for Military Ethics located at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College. David supports military ethics education in many different countries and has held Visiting Fellowships at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, US Naval Academy Annapolis, the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics at the Australian Defence College in Canberra and at the University of Glasgow. He was a Mid-Career Fellow at the British Academy in 2017-18 and is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales. He is a member of the UK MoD AI Ethics Advisory Panel, and in 2020 he was appointed as an Assistant Inspector-General to the Australian Defence Force to assist in the final stages of the Afghanistan Inquiry. David is the Vice President of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics (Euro ISME).

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