21st Century warfare…from cyber attacks to robots

March 24, 2012

The Information Revolution, the Just War doctrine, cyber warfare, drones, robots, warfare without bloodshed…these and other issues are discussed in the Atlantic.

A sampling:

 How do you define information warfare?

Taddeo: The definition of “information warfare” is hotly debated.
One example would be cyber-attacks or hacker attacks, which we consider to be information warfare; another example would be the use of drones or semi-autonomous machines.
From those instances, to me, a good definition of information warfare is “the use of information communication technologies within a military strategy that is endorsed by a state.”

What’s also interesting is the reference to the existence of non-physical space such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc., and that events that occur in these spaces, increasingly affect events in the physical world.