The next world war is going to be fueled by state-sponsored hacking
Battles in the next world war will be fought in the air, on the ground, and online.
“We’ve grown used to the fight being in just one domain,” Dr. Peter Singer, a strategist at the think tank New America and coauthor of “Ghost Fleet,” told Business Insider. “[But] we have these new domains that we’ve never fought in before, and that’s outer space, and cyber space.”
While the US has gotten somewhat used to fighting insurgencies and irregular wars, Singer believes the world may be swinging back toward the conventional path, especially as China continues to ramp up its military capabilities. Singer and August Cole’s “Ghost Fleet” put forth a story of what could potentially happen if the US, China, and Russia went to war, and hacking and electronic warfare played a big part in it. Though the book was fictional, all the technology the authors used was drawn from the real world, whether it was currently deployed or in a prototype stage — and it has become recommended reading by the military’s top leaders.
