21st CENTURY WARFARE:Computers as the New Centre of Gravity

Abstract

Computer networks are becoming the single most important aspect of modern nation-states. Government services, military organisations, economic activities, all are increasingly dependent on computer networks. The recent spate of computer attacks and hackings might presage a new approach to warfare, where states target the increasingly important – and vulnerable – parts of modern nation-states, namely the computer networks that virtually all aspects of national life depend fundamentally upon.