Frequent news items demonstrate that the threat of attack against state information systems has become one of the vital elements to be taken into account in any national defence and security strategy. America’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review underlines the cardinal necessity of defending computer networks. Information technology operations are still today only a premonition: they need to inspire a strategic thinking process which will not limit their impact to just extending the capability for riposte, but the consideration of their place in a situation of strategic rupture.
World War Web 3.0 - Information Technology in Conflicts
If a doctrine is correct, it should not be feared;
if it is wrong, even less so, for it will fall apart unaided.(1)
Despite the many experiments that had been conducted up to then, the use of aircraft in August 1914 was more of a gesture than a matter of genuine operations. The few aviators of the time were not taken seriously, and air combat did not figure in strategic thinking.
History has shown how the perception of the aeroplane as an extension of existing capabilities, rather than as an innovative weapon in its own right, was proven erroneous only a few months later. After Verdun and the Somme, the conquest for air superiority had become imperative.
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