Persist in Cyber Initiative or Lose

Abstract

The United States can lose its relative power position in the world today without losing an armed conflict. This is because cyberspace has opened a new avenue for international competition that co-exists alongside the more familiar nuclear and conventional strategic environments where states interact in militarized crisis and war. Competition in and through cyberspace, short of threat or use of force, has become as potentially strategically consequential for relative gain and loss as war and militarized crisis have been throughout history.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1218382

Entities

People

  • Emily O. Goldman
  • Michael P. Fischerkeller
  • Richard J. Harknett

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Competition
  • Control Systems
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Intellectual Property
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • United States

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber