A Decade of US Cyber: Lessons About Cyber, US Strategy, and International Relations

Abstract: On the precipice of a new National Defense Strategy and over a decade into DOD cyber institutionalization, it is time to take stock on US cyber capabilities. How has US cyber strategy evolved over the last ten years? What has the scholarly community learned about how cyber affects norms, deterrence, escalation, and signaling? Finally, what does the recent conflict with Russia and Ukraine say about how cyber operations will affect military power and crisis stability?

Dr. Erica Lonergan (nee Borghard) is an Assistant Professor in the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She is also a Research Scholar in the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Prior to that, she held positions as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Atlantic Council. She received her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University.

Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a non-resident fellow at the Naval War College's Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, unmanned technologies, and wargaming. She has a BA from Columbia University, MA from Arizona State University, and PhD from George Washington University.