Winning the Digital War: Understanding Maneuver Warfare in Cyberspace
Abstract
In our modern world, there currently exist five defined domains where maneuver warfare tenets apply. These domains are land, air, maritime, space, and cyberspace. With the lethality and effects of today's weapons systems and budget constraints requiring smaller and more effective militaries, success in warfare requires the ability to conduct maneuver warfare. Conducting maneuver warfare successfully requires not only an understanding of the tenets of maneuver warfare, but the ability to maintain freedom of maneuver in all five domains. Maneuver warfare concepts permeate existing doctrine and recommendations exist for its application in the land, air, maritime, and space domains. Where then does cyberspace and maneuver warfare intertwine with respect to future war? More importantly, how does a commander achieve success in future war and maintain freedom of maneuver in cyberspace? This paper will study tenets of maneuver warfare and what the cyberspace domain looks like. Armed with those two foundations and using the tenets of maneuver warfare as a lens, this paper will then merge the layers of cyberspace, the three basic lines of operation in cyberspace, and ultimately discuss how the tenets of maneuver warfare apply in cyberspace.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 06, 2015
- Accession Number
- AD1178758
Entities
People
- Earlie H Jr Walker
Organizations
- Marine Corps University