What Is Cyberwar?

What Is Cyberwar? -- Jeffrey Carr, Slate

The defense community can't figure out how to define it.

What constitutes an act of cyberwar?

Before we get to that, there's a clue in the spelling of the word: cyberwar instead of cyber war. The U.S. Defense Department has determined that cyber is a fifth domain after air, land, sea, and space. We wouldn't call the World War II battle for domain of the skies an "airwar," or the showdowns over North African terrain "landwar." Yet somehow cyberwar has become the preferred term. The oddity of the convention reflects the fact that cyberwar is not quite "war," not quite "cyber," yet it is so palpably real that most developed and developing nations are standing up their own cyber commands to engage in it.

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My Comment: The phrase that perked me up was the following ....

.... The problem, of course, is that no one can agree on what constitutes an act of cyberwar.

Indeed. Read the entire piece.