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Cyberwarfare is not about how states use the cyber domain to wage wars. It is neither about how to substitute armed forces with hackers. This study corrects this wrong way that the debate on cyberwarfare has been framed since the major cyber attacks in Estonia, Georgia and Iran. This final chapter explains that the Information Age changes the way people now think about what to be powerful means and how states act to protect their interests. The cybernetisation of warfare describes the process of changing the meaning of war and military power under the influence of the ideas that created cyberspace. The idea of influencing the world through a flexible and resilient nation shares with the cyber discourse the principles of emergence, autopoiesis and complexity.
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During Thatcher’s years and under harsh economic realities, British capabilities for mobile, expeditionary forces were considerably undermined. The decision to invade the Falklands in 1982 was the exception to the new understanding of power as a mixture of different elements other than military forces and it was ‘a crisis of the Thatcher government’s own making’ (Self 2010, p. 65.) This ‘curiously old-fashioned war’ (Freedman 1982, p. 196) proved that naval forces were working on their operational limits and that the decision of the government to focus on the defence of British territory at the expense of its expeditionary capabilities was not serving the British interests.
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Tsirigotis, A.A. (2017). Cybernetisation as a Tool of Analysis. In: Cybernetics, Warfare and Discourse . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50847-4_8
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