What you should know about ‘Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare’
By Todd South
Sep 29, 12:24 PM
The book "Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare," was published by Polity Books in mid-2021. (Polity Books)
Cyberwarfare has evolved as not only a buzzword in defense circles but one that underpins much of what modern warfighting, with or without bombs, bullets and bandages, has become.
Dr. John Arquilla and his colleagues at the Rand Corporation and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School were peering into the interconnected planet, and especially its future battlespace in the early 1990s. Despite creating new uniformed and civilian jobs in defense, as well as establishing U.S. Cyber Command, Arquilla sees cyber thinking among political and military leaders as potentially fractured or sometimes missing the point.
Arquilla served as an advisor to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, assisted with information strategy for former Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre during the Kosovo War and consulted for Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Storm.
The NPS professor emeritus wrote the recently published book, “Bitskrieg: The New Challenge of Cyberwarfare,” which provides breadth and depth in a slim volume of roughly 200 pages.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/09/29/what-you-should-know-about-bitskrieg-the-new-challenge-of-cyberwarfare/
