THE PRACTICAL REALITY OF CYBERWAR
THE PRACTICAL REALITY OF CYBERWAR

Author(s): Sorina Ana Manea, Gelu Alexandrescu
Subject(s): Military policy, Welfare systems, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: propaganda; subversion; cyber war; war; reification.;
Summary/Abstract: Do we really fight a cyber war? To see if that is as a reality we took another type of actions that was considered to be war some thirty years back, namely propaganda and subversion, and compared them to cyber war and, to gain more insight, we compared all of them to the concept of war. The insight offered by this approach shows that even though we live in a rapidly changing society, this change is often superficial and, as in other branches, the security environment tends to recycle a good idea. Many times we hear that cyber war affects our life by disrupting the normal flow of it. But is really a war what is causing this effect or the political rhetoric is using this stance to draw an alarm signal to the potential disastrous consequence of an attack carried out against the cyber infrastructure of a nation.

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