THE EVOLUTION AND FUTURE OF CYBER WAR: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF FRANCE
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cg.v13i1.92715Keywords:
Future War, Cybernetics, Strategy, Case study , France.Abstract
The article understands the war of the future from the analytical lens of cybernetics and focuses its analysis on the French case, one of the ten most powerful nations in cyberspace in the world. This country, in recent decades, has updated both its strategic documents and reorganized its cyber security and defense apparatus. The aim of the present study is, then, to answer the general question: how has France organized itself to fight the war of the future? And, more specifically: what is the role of cybernetics in preparing this country? To this end, it carries out a case study, whose main research strategy is the exploration of primary sources and official documents, in which we find the central elements of French cyber policy and the essential institutions for its operation. The main finding concerns the French cyberspace governance model, in which there is an attempt to separate offensive and defensive missions and capabilities.
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