Conjectures for framing cyberwarfare

Autor: Peter J. Dortmans, Nitin Thakur, Anthony Ween
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Defense & Security Analysis. 31:172-184
ISSN: 1475-1801
1475-1798
DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2015.1056935
Popis: Cyberspace has emerged as a potentially new (and unconventional) domain for warfare. Much debate has focused on understanding cyber conflict. The ability to critically analyse this phenomenon is important; however, the nascent nature of cyberwarfare and the complexity of the systems involved create challenges not met by conventional approaches. As a first step, this requires an analytical construct to frame discussions in a way that highlights distinct characteristics of the cyber domain. An approach proposed is one of the postulating conjectures for debate as a way to achieve this and to demonstrate its use, both at the strategic and operational levels. It is suggested that such an approach provides one component of a mature analytical framework for the analysis of cyber across a range of warfare domains.
Databáze: OpenAIRE