Cyber War and Lessons from History in the Digital Age

Much used, although often little understood, the terms ‘cyber warfare’ and ‘cyber conflict’ litter the Internet and the print media in the guise of a variety of revelatory exposes, confessions, exclusives and alarmist headlines. In short, cyber conflict entails activities – at either the state or sub-state level – whereby attempts to damage an adversary through attacking computers, information networks or any other facet of the modern Information Technology (IT) society.