21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare

GLOSSARY

The Glossary provides a review of the definitions of cyberwarfare necessary to set the stage and context for the rest of this publication. The relevant historical, quantifiable facts and the figures surrounding China’s cyberattacks against non-Chinese countries will also be introduced and examined.

Note: For this publication, the term cyberwarfare is defined as the calculated use of both offensive and defensive computer network attacks (CNA) and computer network exploits (CNE), to take advantage of computer network vulnerabilities (CNV) at the geo-political level, nation to nation, fighting in what is now defined as the fifth dimension – cyberspace. A military doctrine which includes the use of net centric warfare (NCW), including but ...