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Defending the United States Against Critical Infrastructure Attacks: Exploring a Hypothetical Campaign of Cascading Impacts

11 Jun 2024

In this report, the authors discuss threats to seven classes of critical infrastructure and put forward a hypothetical case study to examine several phases of an adversarial attack on the United States. The attack is intended to constrain U.S. decisionmaking, disrupt military deployment, and impose strategically relevant costs on the civilian populace.
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Authors

Wallace, Sam, Wingfield, Tom, Kane, Bridget R., Chang, Joan, Webber, Stephen, Murphy, Dennis, Egel, Daniel, Tucker, Katherine H., McCarthy, Devin

Division
RAND National Security Research Division International Security and Defense Policy Program
Pages
16
Published in
United States
RAND Identifier
RR-A2397-3
RAND Type
report
Rights
RAND Corporation
Series
Research Reports
Source
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2397-3.html

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