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Resilience solves.

James Andrew Lewis 20, senior vice president and director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Dismissing Cyber Catastrophe," CSIS, 8/17/20, https://www.csis.org/analysis/dismissing-cyber-catastrophe

One major failing of catastrophe scenarios is that they discount the robustness and resilience of modern economies. These economies present multiple targets and configurations; they are harder to damage through cyberattack than they look, given the growing (albeit incomplete) attention to cybersecurity; and experience shows that people compensate for damage and quickly repair or rebuild. This was one of the counterintuitive lessons of the Strategic Bombing Survey. Pre-war planning assumed that civilian morale and production would crumple under aerial bombardment. In fact, the opposite occurred. Resistance hardened and production was restored.1

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