In warfare using  the latest and greatest technology to do combat with an enemy is as old as human history itself.  From the beginning of time, advances in technology have been  utilized in warfare; whether it was the club, spear and later bow and arrow.  One could make the argument that warfare is in fact the inspiration behind the development of new technologies.

While  the idea of military conflict and warfare may not be the causative factors in the development of new technologies, they certainly are adopted immediately for military purposes.  Military  organizations whether they be the Knights Templars with body armor and iron swords or  conquistadors with the canon or the Pentagon, the latest and greatest advances in technology are appropriated for war making purposes.

The use of gun powder for war making purposes in such devices as guns, rifles, and canons dramatically altered world history.  Nations that could not keep up with this technological development; were at the mercy of  those who had mastered these technologies.

An argument could be made that before cargo ships/slave ships were produced, the battleship was conceived first.  For the sake of this article we will declare it a tie.  Suffice it to say as naval technology emerged, warships immediately appeared for the purposes of dominating water ways and trade routes.

Advances in aviation opened the sky’s for the purposes of warfare; once again dramatically altering the worlds landscape of industrialized nations with highly advanced technological weapons and non industrialized nations that were to be dominated by the former.

“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”

Carl von Clausewitz

Understanding the centrality of technology in warfare it is no wonder that the most advanced technological nations have enjoyed military superiority.  However in the age of information Technology something strange and unforseen has occurred.  Similar in nature to the tactic of guerilla warfare that enabled smaller less equipped combatants to use the element of surprise in small tactical raids  on larger better equipped military forces.

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However just the converse has in fact happened.  Similar to guerilla warfare wherein the over matched and outgunned opponent  engages in a series of hit and run attacks, the world of “Cyberspace” or more commonly none as Computer Technology has opened up the battlefield to anyone with a computer and a connection to a network i.e. Internet.

With the advent of computer technology there are micro chips is  in every device from toasters; microwaves, phones, cars, planes, televisions; and pretty much everything imaginable.  Every major industry is dependent on computer technology including the financial industry.

An enemy looking to attack or do battle with a more formidable foe, has a new way to attack the enemy where a conventional size military capacity is irrelevant.  In fact  a large high-tech fighting force could be at  a distinct disadvantage if their enemy can hack into their command and control systems and disrupt  the computers systems that their military operations rely on.

While this form of Cyber War is real; it is what is called Cyber Terror that has the even greater capacity to level the fighting field between rich industrialized high-tech nations and the poor less developed nations.  The rich and powerful nations are vulnerable to attack  on the systems that run their financials; utilities; aviation; transportation; health care and food  distribution to name a few. In a word the objective of war is to disrupt, debilitate and degrade the enemies capacity to sustain conflict. The ability to hack and bring down these keys systems would have that effect.

Never before has the role of information technology become more important than in the age of Cyber War and Cyber Terror.  Any country that can not protect its computer systems from hackers; especially state sponsored hackers from adversarial nations is highly vulnerable to attack.

 

Submitted by Christopher A. Clarke on 10/23/14. 

Christopher A. Clarke is managing editor of Black2020.Com and can be reached through the sites contact page.