Justin Sherman
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Cyber Warfare
Breaking Encryption Hurts Our Defenses
The so-called “Five Eyes” recently pledged to force “encryption backdoors” into private systems. As I just wrote for Real Clear Policy , this has...

Central Intelligence Agency
Confidentiality, Integrity, Authenticity
Are You Defending Against Cyber Attacks on the Integrity of Your Data? CIA—confidentiality, integrity, availability—is the core foundation of...

Cyber Warfare
Social Engineering as a Threat to Societies: The Cambridge Analytica Case
Social engineering broadly refers to the psychological manipulation of human behavior that makes people act in certain ways or divulge confidential...

Cyber Warfare
Cyber Inertia: Destruction by Stagnation?
For years, American society has suffered from a serious bout of cyber inertia. That is, while some great thinkers have done much to advance cyber...

Information Warfare
An Assessment of Information Warfare as a Cybersecurity Issue
Justin Sherman is a sophomore at Duke University double-majoring in Computer Science and Political Science, focused on cybersecurity, cyberwarfare,...

Information Warfare
Thucydides in the Data Warfare Era
“Once again, the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. ” —Donald Kagan, A New History of the...

Cyber Warfare
The Triton Cyber Weapon
In August of 2017, a private Saudi Arabian petrochemical company was hit by a cyber attack which was designed, according to investigators, to sabotage...
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Putin, Plague, and America’s Biodefense Gap
By Ryan Kane • RealClearDefense
From Hormuz to the South China Sea: Defending Freedom of Navigation in Contested Waters
By David F. Lasseter • RealClearDefense
Checklist for Modern Conflict Readiness
By Sergey E. Ivashchenko • RealClearDefense
AUTOWARCOM Is Heading for a Command-and-Control Collision
By Michael Carvelli • RealClearDefense
The Unfinished Reform
By Mark W. Castillon • RealClearDefense

U.S. and Japan Begin Naval Exercises Near Taiwan
By Mari Yamaguchi • Associated Press
From Hormuz to the South China Sea: Defending Freedom of Navigation in Contested Waters
By David F. Lasseter • RealClearDefense
National Guard Soldier Shot While Breaking Up Fight in Washington D.C.
By Military.com
‘No Marine Fights Alone’
By Gidget Fuentes, USNI News
Sea Services Weigh How to Embrace Autonomous, Attritable Tech
By Reeves, NatDef
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