As part of this work, the Cyber Statecraft Initiative and Scowcroft Center will host a discussion on the integration of offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, as well as ‘cybered’ kinetic effects, into the Marine Corps Force Design 2030 initiative. The event will capture the state of play major cyber threat groups in the Indo-Pacific and explore the implications of proposed force design changes on the Marine Corps and the Navy as they optimize toward a strategy informed by the logic of great power competition in the region.
Maritime Future Operating Concepts & Cyber Conflict
- Mon, June 22, 2020 • 1:00 pm ET
The conduct of Cyber Statecraft is at the nexus of technology and geopolitics. As states assimilate technology into new domains of conventional warfare, they fuse changes in technology design to strategic choices and operational outcomes. Cyber capabilities are an increasingly common feature on modern battlefields and shape the conduct of statecraft. The development of these capabilities must now factor into debates about doctrine, force structure, and innovation. The Cyber Statecraft Initiative looks at the broad policy landscape around cyber capabilities including the secure acquisition and operation of software intensive defense systems, modern security assistance, the proliferation of cyber capabilities, and network exploitation on the boundaries of electronic warfare.