Het humanitaire oorlogsrecht heeft zich gedurende vele jaren ontwikkeld tot het systeem van gecodificeerde en gewoonterechtelijke regels zoals we dat nu kennen. Het heeft geresulteerd in een balans tussen de twee voornaamste grondbeginselen van het humanitair oorlogsrecht: militaire noodzaak en humaniteit …

Op de verschillende niveaus van oorlogvoering is gebrek aan begrip van het nut van militaire syberoperaties tijdens conflict. Dit resulteert in terughoudendheid bij het gebruik van dit type operaties. Om het nut van militaire cyberoperaties te begrijpen in context nodig. De context wordt gevormd door …

Since the introduction of the Global Positioning System (GPS), many civil and military applications have become dependent on the continuous availability of GPS-derived position and timing information. Examples comprise financial transaction systems, electrical power grids and combat management systems. …

Next to sea, land, air and space, cyberspace appears to be the fifth operational domain for the military. This manmade and virtual sphere brings along opportunities and threats. In this book, academics of the Netherlands Defence Academy as well as specialists and military professionals from other institutions …

The author adresses the question if there is something called cyber war? He challenges the commonly accepted conclusion that cyber war is inevitably. While acknowledging the reality of cyber threats, he argues that most threats and incidents are actually better qualified as sabotage, espionage and subversion. …

The authors make an attempt to economize the 'feeling of being secure' in times of cyber threats. They distinguish the direct costs of cyber attacks, the indirect costs that follow from the responses to deter (possible) attacks and the indirect expenditures resulting from the rules and regulations that …

By critically analysing the initial worries concerning public reactions and the actual responses to attacks by new military technologies (strategic bombing during World War II), to natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina), to the 2003 Blackouts (in the US), and to terrorist attacks (9/11), the author concludes …

In this article an imaginary military Headquarters is the central objects of analysis. Military HQs are high on the target lists of terrorists and adversaries in general. The amount of digital information exchange in such strategic settings is gigantic. The authors focus on the entry gates of such an …

The authors concentrate on the legal framework for cyber operations. Analysing this framework, covering the legal bases in order to initiate cyber operations, as well as the applicable regimes that govern the conduct of operations, shows that various sorts of cyber operations do not fit nearly into existing …