The Emerging Risk of Virtual Societal Warfare
Mazarr, Michael J. / Bauer, Ryan Michael / Casey, Abigail
The evolution of advanced information environments is rapidly creating a new category of possible cyberaggression that involves efforts to manipulate or disrupt the information foundations of the effective functioning of economic and social systems. RAND researchers are calling this growing threat virtual societal warfare in an analysis of its characteristics and implications for the future.