Abstract
Many nations are engaged in a global Total War between two macro-ideals of the liberal world order (freedom, liberty) and authoritarian order. A key vision of each side is to establish and sustain their ideals. A key objective is to establish and sustain the greatest influence in a multipolar global power system. A key tactic is information dominance. A key target is the social contract to engage and bring about an effect on an entire population. A key medium through which to sustain information dominance and attack targets is cyberspace. Cyberspace and cybersecurity interweave into the social fabric, including civil liberties (opting out of the digital world), privacy (the right to be unobserved and the right to be forgotten), automated resolution of moral dilemmas (autonomous vehicle choosing who to hit), financial security (wealth representation being bits on a hard drive), socio-political deception (detecting fake news on which we base life decisions), and physical safety (loss of life and property from adverse cyber-physical events). As we look to the future of cybersecurity, we have hard choices that affect the way we live (Willett in INCOSE Int Symp [25]). This chapter provides Total War as one context to understand the critical nature of cybersecurity and consider a cybersecurity grand strategy and innovation for the defense of global freedom and personal liberty.
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Notes
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Derived from the US Navy definition of information dominance.
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Identity Politics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), last accessed 19-Mar-2021.
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Open Future—Can liberal democracies survive identity politics?|Open Future|The Economist, Francis Fukuyama, last accessed 19-Mar-2021.
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ISO Strategy 2030,
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Willett, K.D. (2022). Total War. In: Adlakha-Hutcheon, G., Masys, A. (eds) Disruption, Ideation and Innovation for Defence and Security. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06636-8_6
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