Follow the Money: Using Computer Network Attack to Enforce Economic Sanctions

Abstract

Economic power is the use of economic force by one nation against another to achieve a national objective. Governments use economic sanctions as means of changing another government's policy without first going to war. However, economic coercion only works within a narrow set of constraints; anything outside these constraints produces relatively unsuccessful results. Computer Network Attack (CNA), if used in a strategic and specific manner, could provide a tool that would make the applications of economic force more effective against nations that the US desires to influence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 17, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392761

Entities

People

  • Paul R. Younes

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Computer Networks
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Sanctions
  • Economic Security
  • Economic Systems
  • Economic Warfare
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • International Law
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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