“Cyber war” in the 21st century : the emerging security challenge

• Main Author: Commodore (retd) Ashok Sawhney
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79805; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6589
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The recent “Google spat” between China and the United States has brought to fore the possibilities of subverting the ‘cyber commons’. Cyber attacks have the possibility of unleashing great havoc and the very functioning of a networked, modern state.