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8 ISJLP 321 (2012-2013)
Cyberspace Is Not a Warfighting Domain

handle is hein.journals/isjlpsoc8 and id is 326 raw text is: I/S: A JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY Cyberspace Is Not a Warfighting Domain MARTIN C. LIBICKI* Like everyone else who is or has been in a US military uniform, I think of cyber as a domain. It is now enshrined in doctrine: land, sea, air, space, cyber. It trips off the tongue, and frankly I have found the concept liberating when I think about operationalizing this domain. But the other domains are natural, created by God, and this one is the creation of man. Man can actually change this geography, and anything that happens there actually creates a change in someone's physical space. Are these differences important enough for us to rethink our doctrine? General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Retiredi In the beginning was the land domain; with the discovery of flotation came the sea domain. A century ago, the air domain was added to the list; a half-century ago, the space domain was added as well. Within the last quarter-century, the combination of ubiquitous networking and universal digitization has given rise to cyberspace, the newest addition to the growing family of domains. Cyberspace, we are *Martin Libicki is a senior management scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on the impacts of information technology on domestic and national security. Libicki recievied his Ph.D. in economics and M.A. in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and his S.B. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 Michael V. Hayden, The Future of Things Cyber, 5 STRATEGIC STUD. Q. 3,4(2011), available at http://http://ww w.au.af.mil/au/ssq/2o11/spring/hayden.pdf. 2By contrast with cyberspace, which is considered a domain and which, as a domain, is headed by a full general, radio-frequency spectrum, the control over which nations have sparred over since 1940, is not considered a domain. Even through far more money is spent on electronic warfare equipment than in cyberwar equipment, in no Service does the

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