Are cyber capabilities escalatory? This is one of the most debated and important questions in cyber operations. If cyber capabilities, and more broadly, their use in operations and campaigns, will not meaningfully increase the nature or intensity of a conflict, states will not be willing to risk war even after suffering substantial cyber harms, as argued by a group of “doubters.
” But if they are escalatory, as a group of “worriers” fears, then the world will stumble into even more crises and wars, intentionally or unintentionally caused by operations in and through cyberspace. Unfortunately, too much of this debate, likeThe post Amplifiers and Dampeners of Cyber Escalation appeared first on War on the Rocks.