Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World, 2nd Edition

Comparing Traditional Warfare, Guerrilla Warfare, and Cyberwarfare

This chapter has explored the targets that are accepted both in international treaties and traditional wartime behaviors. It has also delved into how cyberwar targets differ from traditional targets and the ways that non-nation-state actors can participate in cyberwar. With a firm understanding of what traditional warfare and cyberwarfare can entail, it helps to add a third type of combat into the mix: police actions, guerrilla, and asymmetric warfare (which this text calls guerrilla warfare for convenience). Note that this oversimplifies the concepts each of those descriptions can include, but for the purposes of this text, it is a useful shorthand.

Modern combat often involves ...