It’s Hard to Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room, Especially If It Isn’t There. RAND on the Search for Cyber Coercion

... Large-scale cyber-attacks are not just a show of force but achievement of specific objectives, so they have nothing to do with coercion . The above seems to challenge the accuracy of the question asked at the beginning of the paper under review: “What is cyber coercion?” Let us first consider what coercion is. It appears to be primarily a form of policy aimed at maintaining or changing the existing order of distribution of power and wealth in the global community [ 5 ]. From this standpoint, the essence of coercion is to change the political behaviour ...