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# Jan Kallberg, PhD

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## Posts

- [Cyber Warfare: Don't Show Your Cards](https://cyberdefense.com/2026/04/cyber-warfare-dont-show-your-cards/) - In cyber conflict, uncertainty is leverage. Has Iran nullified its threats of electronic devastation by demonstrating how little it can do? US political scientist Kenneth N. Waltz wrote in 1990 that the power of nuclear weapons resides in what a nation can do, not what it does. Similar rules apply to cyber threats: uncertainty over
- [Cyber Attacks' Main Ability to Destabilize a Society is through Secondary Effects](https://cyberdefense.com/2026/01/cyber-attacks-main-ability-to-destabilize-a-society-is-through-secondary-effects/) - In the cyber discourse, there is a significant, if not totally overshadowing, focus on the information systems themselves – the concerns don’t migrate to secondary and tertiary effects. For example, the problem of vulnerable industrial control systems in the management of water reservoirs is not limited to digital conduits and systems. It is the fact

## Pages

- [Contact](https://cyberdefense.com/contact/) - Dr. Jan Kallberg can be reached by email cyber@cyberdefense.com.
- [CV](https://cyberdefense.com/cv/) - Current Position The Center for European Policy Analysis (Washington D.C.)Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program. The George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)Adjunct Professor, the Master’s of Cybersecurity Strategy & Information Management program, the College of Professional Studies. The Cyber Defense Review published by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point (West Point Press) The
- [Biography](https://cyberdefense.com/biography/) - Dr. Kallberg’s research is focused mainly on cyber-supported strategic surprise, hidden single points of failure, attack surfaces that we don’t see due to bias, technology developments, and organizational inertia, increased velocity in engagements driven by AI and sensors, cyber defense, and how cyber impacts societal norm stability/destabilization. Dr. Kallberg is a Senior Fellow with the
- [Publications](https://cyberdefense.com/publications/) - Dr. Jan Kallberg’s recent published or accepted peer-review papers 2012 – Present Fernandes, J.C., Nicolas Starck, Richard Shmel, Charles Suslowicz, Jan Kallberg, and Todd Arnold. 2022. Assessing Structural Divides in the Army’s Cyberspace Force to Better Support Operations. Parameters. Vol. 52, no.3 (Fall 2022). Kallberg, Jan, Todd Arnold, and Stephen S. Hamilton. 2022. Sharing Cyber Capabilities
- [Ideas, Claims, and Concepts](https://cyberdefense.com/claims-ideas-and-concepts/) - 202320222021 2020 We tend to see vulnerabilities and concerns about cyber threats to critical infrastructure from our own viewpoint. But an adversary will assess where and how a cyberattack according to their strategy. I am not convinced attacks on critical infrastructure, in general, have the payoff that an adversary seeks. An adversary has limited capabilities
- [Oped and Commentary](https://cyberdefense.com/op-eds-and-commentaries/) - Oped and commentary 2012 – Kallberg, Jan. 2023. Ukraine War Lesson No. 1 — Chatty Micromanagers Die. The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), September 11. Kallberg, Jan, and Stephen Hamilton. 2023. Command by intent can ensure command post survivability. Defense News (C4ISRNET), August 29. Kallberg, Jan. 2023. Ukraine — Victory Is Closer Than You Think. The Center for European Policy

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- [Critical Infrastructure](https://cyberdefense.com/category/critical-infrastructure/)
- [Cyber Conflict](https://cyberdefense.com/category/cyber-conflict/)
- [Cyber Strategy](https://cyberdefense.com/category/cyber-strategy/)