There is a thread of discussion that rises about whether cyber or the electro magnetic spectrum define cyberspace. Other countries have defined their doctrine differently according to their cultural or business perceptions. This discussion is really more about rice-bowl politics…
Category: Cyber Conflict
State on State conflict using a variety of assets within and outside of cyberspace to create specific effects as a form of projection of power.
For fear and profit I give you cyber war
I make a lot of money talking about cyber security and cyber warfare so I most assuredly have a dog in the hunt over whether cyber warfare is a real or a made up threat. I try and be honest…
Cyber warfare and information security whimsy
Waging cyber warfare is seen as a technology problem by technologists, a policy problem by politicians, and a profit problem by businesses. This confluence of concerns is likely due to the prevalent nature of technology in our daily lives. The…
Out of the box thinking versus pliable biases
I recently was having a discussion with a noted scholar of conflict and I said “throwing history under the bus” meaning lets look at this thing as a new thing. My goal was to get out of the box of…
Identifying strategic traits and learning objectives
I’ve been working a project identifying a comprehensive cyber curriculum. The various standard infosec curriculums are primarily for non-conflict oriented entities, and NIST/NICE is really a human resources hiring tool. One aspect of this tasking is looking at the idea…
Thinking about cyber conflict and the role of metaphors in strategy and tactics
Technology and tactics within the realm of cyber conflict are fairly well understood. Networks have been with us for a long time, and we have a fairly good grasp on the exploitation of vulnerabilities. Yet there is an unhealthy focus…
Why a cyber Billy Mitchell/Hyman Rickover won’t fix this…
Rickover and Mitchell were visionary ambassadors and petty tyrants of their respective domains of war fighting. Each working in their own peculiar way eviscerated leadership on the way to promoting new ways of waging war. The history is pretty detailed…
An argument for a comprehensive definition of cyberspace
Contention: There is a contention that cyber is the electromagnetic spectrum and that point is countered by a position that cyber is larger than or composed of more than the electromagnetic spectrum. The proponents of the electromagnetic spectrum say that cyber…
Cyber Security Over The Years
The following image is the one that you’d never expect. It is a graph from a fairly large data set created using an experiemental model. Using the OSI 7 Layer model the layer 0 for kinetic and layer 8 for people…
The unexpected bias of the DIME model and why “I” matters
A few years ago I was doing some writing and I found a discussion of a model called DIME. At the time the model was explained as the mechanisms of national power and was an acronym for diplomacy, information, military,…
Of this and that the cyberwar lexical conflict
The question almost certainly has to be asked at some point in time. Can a cyberwar topple a nation state? If you say yes you’re a fan boy, and if you say no you’re a skeptic. Regardless of the rickety…
Garmisch Germany
I’m in Germany to speak at the Marshall Center tomorrow, and I’m going to be talking about technology and the threats caused by new technologies. I’m talking to the senior executive seminar attendees. The following are some pictures I took…
Draft: Evaluation of incidents in cyber conflict [Graphic]
The following graphic at the bottom of this page is a visualization of the impact of cyber incidents that is a work in progress. There seems to be fairly substantial interest in the contents of my little black book of…
Cyber Dime
The following graphic is a synopsis of the cyber policy statements from the National Security Strategy (2010), The National Defense Strategy (2008), The National Military Strategy (2011), the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (2011) and the Department…
Draft: The myth of cyber space as a man made domain
Recently Jeff Carr wrote a short piece on his blog (Blogspot so no access from DoD) talking about why cyber space in the web 3.0 world really is far from the foundations held by the Department of Defense who states…