The Megabyte Will Always Get Through

Abstract

The purpose of this monograph is to describe the future road ahead for the US Cyber community in light of the recent technical and strategic developments in the state of cyber warfare. The paper began with a realization that cyber attacks have now become weaponized, and have the ability to command computer-guided machines to destroy themselves. In effect, kinetic strikes are now possible through the means of cyber attacks. Cyber attacks have therefore become kinetic in nature. Moreover, a history of such attacks has indicated the offense is significantly more powerful than the defense, and that there have been numerous examples where attacks easily and decisively defeated defensive schemes. However, the American cyber community is not unified, has no common doctrine, budget, educational or recruiting infrastructure.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 17, 2012
Accession Number
ADA566185

Entities

People

  • Deborah S. Karagosian

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Employment
  • Information Warfare
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Applications
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Legality in Cyberspace