Editor's Note: The Pentagram publishes work by published writer and JBM-HH Commander Col. Patrick Duggan. This is the first in a two-part series of an article written by Duggan (special contributions ...

On November 7, 2022, the Chinese State Council of Information Office released a white paper titled “Jointly Build a Community With a Shared Future in Cyberspace,” emphasizing a vision of internet ...

The United States has yet to attempt to control, govern and lay claim to cyberspace. Other countries have been much bolder, seeking to plant their flags in a domain on which America depends to project ...

After years of dismissing the utility of international negotiations on cyberspace, U.S. officials now say that they will participate in talks to develop rules for the virtual world. But which norms ...

The advent of computers and digital communications gave rise to all sorts of new terminology. These weren’t just new technologies and new products but a whole new world of concepts, and they demanded ...

Since the Gulf War, the U.S. military has followed an operational script that exploits technological advantages to fight and win quickly. It starts with blinding strikes against intelligence and ...

There are no internationally accepted criteria yet for determining whether a nation state cyberattack is a use of force equivalent to an armed attack, which could trigger a military response. Likewise ...

The following terms and definitions are from a DOD memorandum that aligns key cyberspace operations vocabulary with the terminology from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. See DOD intelligence glossary ...

As you start reading this article, you are most likely doing so on a laptop, a tablet, or your phone. That’s great because it means you are already in cyberspace, and that’s what I want to talk about.

The article will first examine cyberspace and how current approaches have attempted to apply international law to armed attacks in cyberspace. Looking through the lens of current international laws ...

Success in cyberspace is essential to the advancement of America’s national interests. Digital technologies determine how many of the processes that define modern societies operate, from ...