Cyber warfare is taking place!
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| Publication date | 2016 |
| Journal | Internationale Spectator |
| Article number | 4 |
| Volume | Issue number | 70 | 6 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
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| Abstract |
In 2012, Thomas Rid concluded that “Cyberwar will not take place”. Besides the fact that his colleague John Stone argued otherwise, it is now clear that cyber warfare has indeed become reality. Early 2016, the US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter confirmed he had given US Cyber Command “its first wartime assignment” in the war with ISIS. Likewise, in the UK Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon MP confirmed that UK’s offensive cyber capabilities are also deployed in the campaign against Da’esh (also referred to as ISIS). These two public statements, joined with NATO’s announcement to “recognise cyberspace as a domain of operations”, have brought (the debate on) cyber warfare into the open.
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| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://spectator.clingendael.org/pub/2016/6/cyber_warfare_is_taking_place/ |
| Other links | https://spectator.clingendael.org/nl/over-ons |
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Ducheine, Cyber Warfare, IntSpec_2016_6
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