Cyberspace: What Senior Military Leaders Need to Know

Abstract

In the last century, the United States was protected from a direct physical attack by its adversaries due to its geographic isolation. However, today any adversary with sufficient capability can exploit vulnerabilities in the United States' critical network infrastructures using cyber warfare and leverage physical attacks to significantly impact the lives of its citizens and erode their confidence in its ability to protect their way of life. Currently, the United States is the most technologically advanced country with the greatest dependency on computer based systems and networks making it also the most vulnerable nation state in the globally connected world. This strategic research paper presents information senior military leaders need to know about cyberspace to prevent or minimize the effects of any future cyber attacks by a nation state or non-state actor against the United States' critical network infrastructures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA520146

Entities

People

  • Darryl S. Shaw

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Military Science
  • Mobile Phones
  • National Security
  • Network Science
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber