Author: Blank, Stephen

Source: Comparative Strategy, Volume 27, Number 3, May 2008 , pp. 227-247(21)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

In April-May 2007, Estonia experienced several weeks of coordinated cyberattacks against its financial and sociopolitical institutions. Although the origin of these attacks cannot be definitively named, it is widely believed in Estonia and among many analysts that Moscow was behind these attacks. Certainly these attacks represented the culmination of plans set in motion a year earlier to attack the Estonian government and society for their supposedly anti-Russian policies. And the accompanying demonstrations in Tallinn at this time also represented well-worn Soviet techniques used in earlier coups in Eastern Europe. Ultimately the advent of such new forms of military operations confirms a threat assessment by which any one operation on land, sea, air, underwater, or space can target anyone in any of these dimensions and raises provocative issues for both analysts of war and government officials.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01495930802185312

Affiliations: 1: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, USA

Publication date: 2008-05-01

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