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This year, U.S. Cyber Command celebrated its tenth birthday. It has much to celebrate: It achieved the status of a unified combatant command

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Air supremacy isn’t what it used to be

One of those articles which suggests that maybe theories about war, as envisioned by the modern crop of leaders, don't match reality.

If I were the kinda guy to say "this tells us something about other new domains of warfare," then I might say: this lesson illuminates our knowledge about cyber, in that the military theories of cyber are probably as relevant to 'what modern wars look like' as the military theories of air war.

Which is to say: I don't think we have a grasp how "cyber" works as a domain. Google has cyber deterrence, but the US does not. Wikileaks has cyberpower, and JK Rowling has cyberpower, and the FSB has cyberpower. What they call "signal boost" on Twitter is, in some respects, the use of cyberpower.

The KGB call people with this ability "agents of influence," and having access to "guide" their influence towards advancing Soviet interests was an imporant goal. Now that so much influence exists inside the cyber domain, it can be useful to remember some of these old espionage concepts.

Cyberpower is structural. Not about using "cyber weapons," but about creating advantage.

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