A single missile can cost millions of dollars and only hit a single critical target. A low-equity, AI-powered cyberattack costs next to nothing and can disrupt entire economies, degrading national power and eroding strategic advantage.
The rules have changed: the future of warfare is a series of asynchronous, covert cyber operations carried out below the threshold of kinetic conflict. Battles will still be fought over land, sea, and sky, but what happens in the cyber domain could have a greater bearing on their outcome than how troops maneuver on the battlefield.
