Description
Cyber attacks, which are on the rise in inter- and intra-state theatres of conflicts, pose significant challenges to state and non-state actors in building strategic surprises for victory or domination. While cyber war among superpowers has received large attention by combining elements of operational history, military tradition, capabilities and foreign policy analysis, the literature on cyber civil wars remains a lay of land to be studied and further explored. The extant literature available on cyber civil wars concerns the use of cyber capabilities in civil conflicts (hackers’ communities), disinformation/malinformation, and the rivalry among HUMINT-SIGINT and Cyber. This paper seeks to explore and consequently put another stone in the literature
of the civil war reflecting on what cyber civil wars look like? Where do they start and end? Which lines have they fought along? Who is responsible for providing damages to the victims? What proactive and reactive strategies are in place to mitigate the risks? The discussion embraces a variety of disciplines pertinent to security, defence, information and intelligence besides the dynamics of civil conflicts.
