The Art of Cyber Warfare: Strategic and Tactical Approaches for Attack and Defense in the Digital Age

Introduction: 1984 and the Lessons of the Past
Contents
Part I Lessons from the Past
1 The Art of Cyber Warfare and the 13 Lessons of Sun Tzu
	Sun Tzu’s Writing Style and the Transfer of His Work to the Present Day
	What is the Art of War?
	Strategy and Tactics
	The Art of War by Sun Tzu
	Lesson 1: Planning and Preparation
	Lesson 2: On the Art of War, or: When Initiating Actions
	Lesson 3: Attack with Strategy, or: On the Proposals of Victory and Defeat
	Lesson 4: Tactics
	Lesson 5: Power
	Lesson 6: Weaknesses and Strengths
	Lesson 7: Struggle for the Initiative, or: The Strategies of the Direct and Indirect
	Lesson 8: The Nine Variable Factors
	Lesson 9: The Army on the March
	Lesson 10: Terrain
	Lesson 11: The Nine Types of Terrain
	Lesson 12: On the Art of Attacking with Fire
	Lesson 13: On the Use of Spies
	Conclusion: The Essence of the Art of War
2 Codes and Secret Messages: From the Ancient Origins of Steganography and Cryptography and their Relevance to Today
	Hidden Messages: The Invention of Steganography
	The Holy Grail of Steganography
	The Ancient Beginnings of Cryptography
	The Caesar Shift
	The Oriental Beginnings of Cryptoanalysis
	Cipher vs. Code: The Secret Messages of the Popes
	Politicians Beware: The Drama of Mary Stuart’s Encrypted Letters
	The Vigenère Encryption: In Search of the Indecipherable Cipher
	At the Transition to Modernity: How Ancient Algorithms Became Modern Encryption Technology Through Mechanics
	The Enigma Principle and the Endless Race Against Time
	A Different Story of Cryptocurrencies
	Outlook: An Arms Race Without End?
3 Stuxnet and the Poisoned Well: What Connects the Middle Ages with the Cyber World
	The castle as a symbol of medieval defense
	Stuxnet and a Lesson from the Middle Ages
	Built Defense
	The Fall of the Knights
	From the Middle Ages to the future and from the crossbow to the cyber troop: A brief history of technology in cyberspace
Part II Modern and Hybrid Warfare
4 “The End Justifies the Means” or: the Legacy of Carl von Clausewitz
	War According to Clausewitz
	The Theory of War According to Clausewitz
	Types of War
	Clausewitz and the New Wars
	The Hybrid War as a “new” Form of Warfare
	A Definition of Hybrid Warfare
	So, is Cyberwar a Form of Hybrid War?
	The Definition of Tactics and Strategy According to Clausewitz
5 The Shift of Powers, Borders, and Resources
	The Nature of Cyber Warfare
	Digital Weapons and the “Silent Arms Race”
	What is the Goal of Cyber Warfare?
	Does Cyberwar Have a Purpose?
	Cyberwar and Cyber Diplomacy
6 New Rules for a New War
	Why are There Even Rules for War?
	On the International Legal Classification of Cyberwar
	The Cyber War and the Transformation of Armed Violence
	Cyber as the Fifth Dimension?
	The Weapons of the War of the Future
	The Automation of War
	The Mathematics of the New War
	Real-Time as a New Challenge
	The Current Situation: Power Struggle and Power Vacuum
	The Montreux Document as a Model?
	On the Relevance of the Geneva Conventions
	Necessity of a New Language
Part III The Art of Cyber Warfare
7 Techniques and Tactics of Cyber Warfare
	The Importance of a Global Internet Infrastructure
	Technology and Tactics of Cyber Warfare
	The Difference Between Warriors and Soldiers in Digital Urban Warfare
	The New Technology of War
	The Cyber War as a War Without Humans
	A Market for Vulnerabilities
	Cybersecurity in the Digitally Networked World
	A Race Against Time
	Can a State Protect Itself Against Cyber Warfare?
8 Survival in Cyberspace: Strategies for Every Individual
	The “Byzantine Problem”, the Human Factor, and a Warning
	Be a Spartan!
	(Re-)Know Yourself
	The Failure of the Senses
	How do I Hide in the Cyber World?
	Ghost in the Shell
	A Note on Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies
	Do What No One Expects
	Nothing is for Free!
	“Back to the Roots”
	The Psychology of the Masses, the Individual, and the Primitive Man
9 Propaganda—How it Worked in the Past and What it is Today
	Propaganda as Part of Digital Warfare
	More Than Propaganda
	The War of the Future is an Information War
	From the Cold War to the Iron Curtain 2.0
	Propaganda as the Opposite of Diplomacy
	At the Border of Propaganda: Technology for Influencing Language and Human Behavior
Part IV Outlook: The Future of Cyber Warfare
10 The World in 2084
	On the Relevance of this Book
	Some Thoughts on the Current War in Ukraine and Israel
	The Winners Write History
	The World in 2084
	A Glimmer of Hope
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