Course Description
The course explores the national security concept of strategic fragility as it applies to modern society's growing reliance on interconnected, complex, and potentially fragile critical infrastructures.
Learning Objectives
- The course covers the rise of fragile infrastructures, the role of the information infrastructure as a control mechanism, sources of vulnerability, examples of infrastructure attacks and their consequences, and potential means to mitigate risks and deter attacks by others on our strategic infrastructures.
- The course also examines current roles and missions of various U.S. Government entities and military commands in light of the potential threat from strategic infrastructure attacks.