Is Cyberspace a Domain?

Cyberspace is a Domain
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Cyberspace is a Domain
Cyberspace is a domain that has significant impacts on the long-range policy concerning cyber operations. In particular, technology is rapidly advancing and highly dynamic, making cyber warfare future capabilities speculative. Dating back to World War II, various aspects of cyberspace were operational, such as the use of frequency spectrum to mislead bombers that they were returning home causing some of them to land at the fields of Royal Air Force (Poirier and Lotspeich 2013, 75). As such, cyberspace was recognized as an operation warfare domain many years ago. Technology has made this domain a vital war instrument since information is power.
Notably, cyberspace has significant effects on the long-range policy concerning cyber operations. Currently, governments are using numerous resources to acquire tools that would help them to have fully functional cyber operations. The military has sophisticated cyber technologies to obtain the information they require to protect national security. For example, the 2008 Russian-Georgian War portrays how cyberspace can be an essential warfare domain. Russia i...