Accession Number:

ADA566185

Title:

The Megabyte Will Always Get Through

Descriptive Note:

Monograph Jul 2011-May 2012

Corporate Author:

ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES

Personal Author(s):

• Karagosian, Deborah S.

Report Date:

2012-05-17

Pagination or Media Count:

69.0

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.

Descriptors:

• *CYBERWARFARE
• *MILITARY OPERATIONS
• AIR POWER
• COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
• CYBERTERRORISM
• HISTORY
• INFRASTRUCTURE
• NATIONAL SECURITY

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE