A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domainThe idea of cyber war has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber domain. However this lens of war and its expectations for death and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of cyber competition and conflict. Are cyber activities actually more like an intelligence contest where both states and nonstate actors grapple for information advantage below the threshold of war In Deter Disrupt or Deceive Robert Chesney and Max Smeets argue that reframing cyber competition as an intelligence contest will improve our ability to analyze and strategize about cyber events and policy.