Episode 12 - David Fahrenkrug on Cyber Warfare

In this episode featuring Professor David Fahrenkrug, we discuss Cyber Warfare. We begin by asking what is and isn’t cyberspace and how does that relate to warfare? With that, we talk about what a theory of cyber warfare might look like; why we need it; and whether a theory could hold up to the rate of change within cyberspace.

We also cover debates such as the Balkanization of the Internet; the prospects of a “Cyber Pearl Harbor” as SecDef Panetta described it in 2012; what AI and IoT may hold for our future; and Operation Orchard - a cyber warfare case study that Professor Fahrenkrug found to be particularly interesting.

Professor Fahrenkrug has taught a Cyber Warfare course at SSP for four years now. He is the Director of Strategic Planning at Northrop Grumman’s Analysis Center and served in the US Air Force for 26 years - piloting F-15s for a number of years before gaining his PhD in Political Science at the University of Chicago. In his last tour of active duty, Professor Fahrenkrug served as a Senior Military Advisor to the Director of the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon, Andrew Marshall.

The Security Studies Podcast is produced by Jeffrey Palmer. 


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