THE BATTLESPACE
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yberspace. It sounds like another dimension, perhaps with
green lighting and columns of numbers and symbols flashing
in midair, as in the movie The Matrix. Cyberspace is actually much
more mundane. It's the laptop you or your kid carries to school, the
desktop computer at work. It's a drab windowless building downtown and a pipe under the street. It's everywhere, everywhere there's
a computer, or a processor, or a cable connecting to one. .
And now it's a war zone, where many of the decisive battles in the
twenty-first century will play out. To understand why, we need to
answer some prior questions, like: What is cyberspace? How does it
work? How can militaries fight in it?
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