Is Cyber Revolutionary or Barely Relevant in Modern Warfare?
Offensive cyber operations in warfare have long had the potential to be revolutionary but that promise has remained distant, being “much harder to use against targets of strategic significance or to achieve outcomes with decisive impacts, either on the battlefield or during crises short of war.” But this assessment cannot be the whole story. Humanity is still only in the first decades of the digital age, which, like the agricultural and industrial ages before it, will last centuries. The near future is darker, with more crises and conflict between high-tech powers, than during the relative peace of the post-Cold War The post Is Cyber Revolutionary or Barely Relevant in Modern Warfare? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Offensive cyber operations in warfare have long had the potential to be revolutionary but that promise has remained distant, being “much harder to use against targets of strategic significance or to achieve outcomes with decisive impacts, either on the battlefield or during crises short of war.” But this assessment cannot be the whole story. Humanity is still only in the first decades of the digital age, which, like the agricultural and industrial ages before it, will last centuries. The near future is darker, with more crises and conflict between high-tech powers, than during the relative peace of the post-Cold War
The post Is Cyber Revolutionary or Barely Relevant in Modern Warfare? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
