"Star Wars" and Cyber: Can History Help Us Build Today's Defenses?

Building effective cyber defenses is a major challenge for defense planners, just as missile defense has been since the original Strategic Defense Initiative. In both realms the offense has the advantage, making effective defense difficult. Missile defense, however, now has several decades of experience producing and fielding new technologies. Are there lessons to be learned — or avoided?

The Project on Military and Diplomatic History will host a panel discussion of CSIS experts on the history of missile defense, its experience in developing new technologies, and what these tell us about the challenges for building effective cyber defenses. The session will include a briefing by U.S. Army Captain James Torrence on his award-winning essay “Cyber Defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative”.

This event was made possible by donations in support of the Project on Military and Diplomatic History.