Examples of War in Cyberspace
There are various types of wars being fought in cyberspace from
information warfare to activating missiles through cyberspace. Methods
used in cyberwar is not a new form of warfare being witnessed in the
21st century but a strategic method of warfare fought in cyberspace
with the advancement and development of telecommunication technology
and satellite navigation. The idea of organising in networks and
gathering information to attack may have been taken from ancient
military dynasties. According to Arquilla and Ronfeldt1, the ancient
military force the Mongols in 1241 fought accordingly to the
principles of cyberwar. The idea was to have absolute command of
battlefield information, ‘they fought like organised networks rather
then a hierarchy’. Arquilla and Ronfeldt1 also argue that the warfare
adopted by the combined forces of North Vietnam and Viet Cong which
defeated the modern superpower United States of America was due to
them operating like networks than an institution.
The Second World War and the use of the enigma machine to intercept
and crack codes are examples of war in cyberspace, the cold war fought
by the allies against the communists regime was a war without a
physical battle field but a war of controlling information and
manipulating it for the purpose of propaganda. The term ‘war’ doesn’t
necessarily imply that the war is a physical war in cyberspace because
cyberspace is a virtual space, it is not tangible hence the method of
warfare is unconventional to battles fought with soldiers and tanks.
To simplify it even more one can say it is a ‘war of controlling
information’ or attacking...
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...trol, communication
and intelligence and trying to locate, read, surprise and deceive the
enemy.
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http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/RRR.fall95.cyber/cyberwar.html
Excerpted from Cyber War Is Coming, by John J. Arquilla and David F.
Ronfeldt, in Comparative Strategy, Vol. 12, pp. 141-165, 1993.
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/965344.stm
3. http://www.afsa.org/fsj/sept00/Denning.cfm
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5. http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/technology/4105007.stm
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