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Creating cyber strategists: escaping the ‘DIME’ mnemonic / Thomas, Timothy   Article
Thomas, Timothy Article
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Summary/Abstract This article offers a straw man cyber curriculum designed to initiate discussion on how to educate cyber strategists in the US, stressing the recent advances in technology moving us to the next generation of wearables, drivables, flyables, and scannables. With everything becoming interconnected, there is a need to extend instruction from the instruments of national power associated with DIME (diplomatic, information, military, economic) to a more holistic paradigm when considering cyber issues. This requires developing cyber strategists based on new curriculum components to capitalize on comprehensive views and analytical thought instead of mnemonic devices. It calls on digital and national security experts to reconsider the underlying concepts that will serve as educational guides for cyber strategists as they progress into the next decade.
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ID:   148990


Evolution of Russian military thought: integrating hybrid, new-generation, and new-type thinking / Thomas, Timothy   Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article highlights both the evolution of Russian thinking and Russian General Staff interest in a concept known as new-type warfare. In early 2015, General-Lieutenant A. V. Kartapolov, then director of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operation’s Directorate, both explained the concept in an article written for the Journal of the Academy of Military Science and provided a schematic visualization of the concept. Before this revelation, Western analysts had thought that the Russian military was using either hybrid warfare concepts or new-generation warfare (NGW) means. In response to these assertions from the West, Russian military officers stated that they do not conduct hybrid war, noting clearly that this is a Western method for waging modern war. However, two retired Russian officers did write extensively on NGW in 2012 and 2013, which prompted much discussion in the West. This concept was not directly refuted by Russian military officers, which may mean it is still a relevant way to consider warfare within the ranks of military professionals. At this moment, however, with General Staff backing, it appears that the new-type warfare concept has won out over NGW, although an evolution and integration of thinking is also apparent in the progression from hybrid, to NGW, to new-type warfare.
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ID:   140766


Russia’s military strategy and Ukraine: indirect, asymmetric—and Putin-led / Thomas, Timothy   Article
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Summary/Abstract This article details the development of Russia’s military strategy and how elements of that strategy may have been applied in Ukraine. It examines both traditional and contemporary elements of strategy, with a particular focus on the effect of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s competitive logic and the General Staff’s reliance on non-military methods of thought. With regard to the latter, General of the Army Valeriy Gerasimov, Chief of the Russian General Staff, noted that today, non-military measures in operations are used over military operations by a ratio of 4:1. Also examined is the concept of reflexive control, which may have been used as a propaganda method during the Ukraine intervention to exert an information-psychological influence on both Russia’s domestic and international audiences.
Key Words Ukraine  Asymmetric  Russia Military Strategy  Indirect  Putin - Led 
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ID:   130030


Russia's information warfare strategy: can the nation cope in future conflicts? / Thomas, Timothy   Journal Article
Thomas, Timothy Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract This article discusses new developments in Russia's information and cyber warfare concepts. It updates information based on old paradigms and introduces several new developments that are influencing the current paradigm. It examines the potential shape of Russia's cyber strategy and offers a prediction as to how they might 'cyber cope' in future conflict.
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Sun Tzu at the computer: informationising the art of war / Thomas, Timothy   Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract The Chinese Concept of informatized warfare is the outcome of this transformation in the nation's mode of thinking. Traditional and mechanised methods of thoughts no longer work in an integrated and systems-oriented environment characterised by rapidly changing time-space relationships. As a result, the strategic focus of the transformation is on changing the style of thinking, introducing innovation in operational theory according to one source.
Key Words PLA  Information Revolution  China 
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