Description
Total length of the course: 2-4 hours
Overhyped and misunderstood in equal measure, offensive cyber operations are capable of extraordinary strategic effect — yet far more constrained, costly, and failure-prone than their reputation suggests. This course builds a rigorous, practitioner-informed understanding of how they actually work: from strategic logics below the threshold of warfare, to the painstaking multi-phase anatomy of a real operation. Country profiles of the US, Russia, China, and North Korea reveal how culture, doctrine, and patience — or the lack of it — shape capability and outcomes, before the course turns to the forces reshaping the field: AI, the proliferation of smart devices, and the deepening integration of cyber tools into modern warfare.