The pedagogy of Cyber-WAR: Explaining Ukraine's resilience against Russian Cyber-aggression
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=BHu9uKo-RT" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=BHu9uKo-RT</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14751798.2024.2326313" target="_blank" >10.1080/14751798.2024.2326313</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The pedagogy of Cyber-WAR: Explaining Ukraine's resilience against Russian Cyber-aggression
Original language description
After Russia's massive Cyber-attacks on Ukraine's government and bank sectors in January-February 2022, many analysts alleged that Cyber-power would be a crucial component of Russia's military victory in Ukraine. Contrary to these expectations, however, Russian Cyber-intrusions yielded meagre strategic benefits, with Moscow seemingly prioritising conventional warfare and destruction of energy and civilian infrastructure instead. Using a theory of asymmetric conflict, this paper argues, somewhat counterintuitively, that the reason behind inhibited efficacy of Russian Cyber-operations post-2022 are Moscow's prior Cyber-attacks against Ukraine since 2013. While having helped the Kremlin weaken Ukraine's Cyber-networks and collect local intelligence, these antecedent Cyber-operations have provided a two-pronged learning loop: for Ukraine to cultivate habits of mitigating Russian Cyber-threats, and for Russia to acquire habits of relying on information operations more than on destructive Cyber-attacks. This "pedagogical" mechanism ultimately enabled Ukraine to redress its Cyber-asymmetry with Russia and deny Moscow success in its Cyber-intrusions post-2022.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Defense and Security Analysis
ISSN
1475-1798
e-ISSN
1475-1801
Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
270-291
UT code for WoS article
001196841300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85189526603