The authors examine the remarkable rise of cyberspace as an arena of interest for national and international security policy through the prism of 'securitization' theory. Considering the relative few serious cyber attacks to date, what explains this rise to prominence and is it actually justified, or …

Het Enrica Lexie-incident, waarbij twee Italiaanse militairen zijn gearresteerd door de Indiase autoriteiten, roept vragen op over wie er strafrechtelijke rechtsmacht heeft over militairen die aan boord van een koopvaardijschip zijn geplaatst. Vragen die ook voor Nederland relevant zijn nu de regering …

In this article the authors focus on the human factor in cyber defence in order to improve the resilience of individual people and organisations. They aim to understand attackers' working methods that most try to manipulate the behaviour of people by exploiting a number of psychological and sociological …

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. …

Deployments, such as the ones to Uruzgan, do not end when service members return home. For an extensive period of time, they have performed their jobs in a hazardous environment, with ambushes and violent attacks and the risk of being wounded or even killed. They may also have witnessed violation of …

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 …

The work-family interface is a highly relevant, yet underexposed issue in project management. When projects require family-separation, work demands are likely to conflict with family life and the consequences may be neither beneficial for (project) organizations nor for families. The aim of this study …

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 …

This article teaches that, like today in the context of cyber security, various nations came up with divergent approaches and responses at the tactical, operational and strategic levels. The explanation given lies in the fact that - apart from the common security setting and available technology - policy …