6. ABSORBING SHOCKS
1. Henry Kissinger, World Order (New York: Penguin, 2014), pp. 78–82.
2. For more on the difference between stability and resilience strategies, see Aaron Wildavsky, Searching for Safety (New York: Routledge, 1988).
3. Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (New York: Random House, 1962), pp. 117-123.
4. Graham T. Allison, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), pp. 229–230.
5. Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence (New York: Times Books, 1995), p. 97.
6. Angela Stent, The Limits of Partnership (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 175.
7. Nahal Toosi, “D.C. Snubs Russian Ambassador,” Politico, March 7, 2018, https://
8. Maggie Haberman, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo, “Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia,” New York Times, May 26, 2017, https://
9. For a discussion of the potential downsides for American interests of criminally prosecuting unregistered agents of the Russian government, see Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, “Maria Butina and the Criminalization of Citizen Diplomacy,” Nation, December 26, 2018.
10. See Section 312 of the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018, https://
11. See, for example, the report by the Department of Transportation on GPS disruption vulnerabilities and the need for backup systems, Vulnerability Assessment of the Transportation Infrastructure Relying on the Global Positioning System (Washington, D.C.: US Department of Transportation, 2001), https://
12. Matt Blaze, Jake Braun, Harri Hursti, David Jefferson, Margaret MacAlpine, and Jeff Moss, DEF CON 26 Voting Village: Report on Cyber Vulnerabilities in US Election Equipment, Databases, and Infrastructure (n.p.: DEF CON, 2018), https://
13. Margaret Newkirk, “Advocates Say Paper Ballots ARE Safest,” Bloomberg Businessweek, August 10, 2018, https://
14. Kim Zetter, “Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid,” Wired, August 9, 2016, https://
15. James Scott and Drew Spaniek, The Energy Sector Hacker Report (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, 2016), https://
16. Elbridge Colby, From Sanctuary to Battlefield: A Framework for a US Defense and Deterrence Strategy for Space (Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, 2016), p. 6, https://
17. James Acton, “Escalation Through Entanglement,” pp. 82–92.
18. Colby, From Sanctuary to Battlefield, p. 22.
19. Andrew Krepinevich, “The Eroding Balance of Terror,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2019, p. 65.
20. Joseph Nye, “Rules of the Cyber Road for America and Russia,” Project Syndicate, March 5, 2019, https://
21. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statement, “On the History of US Violations and Terminations of Key International Treaties, January 11, 2018, http://