Cyber Warfare Ethics

An accurate and comprehensive collection that captures the various ethical and moral challenges that we as cyber warfare planners and operators grapple with continuously, illustrated through both real world and notional case studies. Cyber Warfare Ethics addresses these concerns across a wide range of cyber warfare operations as well as those inherent in the use of today's advanced technology employed in warfare. Anyone interested in cyber warfare should read this book to understand the important ethical considerations of this rapidly evolving, critical warfare area.Captain James Caroland, Chair, Cyber Science Department, U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Navy Cyber Warfare EngineerCyber operations, both above and below the threshold of violent conflict, continue to vex policy makers and strategists. With thousands of years of experience in physical conflict, nations are still developing their operational, legal and ethical approaches to this newer non-kinetic realm. Concepts such a proportionality and discrimination must be taken into account in these evolving national security architectures. This new book provides a range of very useful insights for national security leaders and their organisations as they traverse the challenges of developing, absorbing, employing and evolving new age cyber capabilities. Cyber Warfare Ethics is a publication that should be on the reading list for anyone - policy makers, strategists, academics and citizens - with an interest in the ethical application of all forms of cyber power in the coming decades.Major General Mick Ryan, Commander Australian Defence College

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. 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).