It’s Hard to Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room, Especially If It Isn’t There. RAND on the Search for Cyber Coercion

... methodology for defining coercion in cyberspace on the seminal work by the American economist Thomas Schelling Arms and Influence , among other things. They claim that Schelling described two forms of coercion: active coercion (compellence) and passive coercion (deterrence). In their words, the former involves the active use of force in some form to compel action by another. In contrast, the latter involves the threat ened use of force to either motivate action or refrain from a particular activity. Schelling ...