Cyber: "What is it - Characteristics - Factors - Strategic Dimensions"

Abstract

Like other traditional fields, cyber has become a new field of conflict, with its concept, elements, characteristics, and factors, as well as strategic dimensions. International actors have been plunged into the chaos of cyber concepts, their strengths, and elements, as well as the ways in which they are used between useful or harmful. In addition to the solid and soft power of the State, cyber power has emerged, which has had an impact on the domestic and international levels and has led to multiple levels of power among actors without limiting it to the State.

     It has become clear to international actors that those who have the mechanisms to employ the cyber environment are now the most capable of influencing the behavior of the factors employed in this environment, bringing the world into new mechanisms and concepts and renewed conflicts of threats and cyber wars.

    The research aims to provide a theoretical framework for the concept of cyber and associated concepts, to review its most important characteristics, to identify its forms, elements, parts and patterns of cyber warfare, and its strategic dimensions across three main themes: what cyber is and what concepts are associated with it. The second is related to the characteristics and elements of cyberspace. The third section touched on the satellites of cyberspace and its strategic dimensions.