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escalation firebreak: a standalone construct

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Cyber conflict studies

a psychological threshold between kinds of attack, such as cyber, conventional and nuclear, that publics and leaders are reluctant to cross when responding.

In cyber conflict studies, escalation firebreak refers to a psychological threshold between kinds of attack, such as cyber, conventional and nuclear, that publics and leaders are reluctant to cross when responding. This meaning comes from Kreps (2019) in Journal of Cybersecurity.[1]

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Kreps, S., & Schneider, J. (2019). Escalation firebreaks in the cyber, conventional, and nuclear domains: moving beyond effects-based logics. Journal of Cybersecurity, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyz007

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