Cyberspace: assessing the military dimension

In: The military balance: the annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics, S. 27-32

Abstract

In recent years, much comment and analysis has been devoted to questions surrounding the potential or actual military uses of cyberspace. Cyberspace can be used for a range of tasks, including gathering information, infiltrating and exploiting networked systems of potential or actual adversaries, and delivering effects that may have implications for military forces, either in terms of impact on them or in terms of tasks that they may be called on to undertake in response. This article assesses national and multinational cyber capabilities, both civil and military, even if these are difficult to detail in the traditionally quantitative way to address military inventories. Adapted from the source document.