“Will norms evolve for cyber warfare analogous to those . . . that have helped keep the world free from the use of nuclear weapons since 1945? This thoughtful and careful work parses this hugely important question with care and creativity. Bravo.”—R. James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

“Dr. Mazanec’s pioneering work on cyber norms fills a void in the nascent canon of cyber-conflict knowledge and sets a path forward for further research. Informative and instructive for today’s policymakers.”—Bob Gourley, former chief technology officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the first director of intelligence at the Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defense

“Brian Mazanec cuts through considerable clutter in thinking about the threat of cyber war. . . . The Evolution of Cyber War is a significant contribution to the required canon for anyone interested in understanding this new, prospective weapon of mass destruction.”—Keith Payne, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Forces Policy and current president of the National Institute for Public Policy

“Brian Mazanec has produced a stellar work by creating a set of norms and then applying them across different evolutions of weapons platforms. This adds academic rigor to a field that’s sorely in need of it.”—Jeffrey Carr, CEO of cyber security firm Taia Global, Inc., and author of Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld