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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 06, 2015
Accession Number
AD1178758

Entities

People

  • Earlie H Jr Walker

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Department Of Defense
  • Internet
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Organizations
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Protocols
  • New York
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space