Why Democracies Are at a Disadvantage in Cyber Wars

March 16, 2017Andrea G

Moisés Naím / Columbia Journal for International Affairs, Special 70th Anniversary Issue

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” This well-known quip that satirist Ambrose Bierce made late in the nineteenth century has a contemporary version: “Attacks against the United States are God’s way of teaching Americans how weaker enemies are stronger than they seem.”