Cyberwarfare Study Guide, a study of 200 years of computer warfare

What is cyberwarfare

Cyberwarfare Cyber Warfare is currently Hacking, Espionage, Sabotage, and or Harassment Attacks on military and civilian computer networks and personnel. Some military’s focus is on large country-on-country attacks on Infrastructure, military, or industrial targets.

Computers became useful in 1822 much of their use was academic and scientific.

WWI (1914 to 1918) didn’t show much use for the analog computers of that time. The Victory was achieved through PSYOP and the use of propaganda.

1930’s analog computers were engineered to do calculations. (gears)

WWII (1939 to 1945) 1940’s the analogs went digital in 1943 with the first American computer the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and computer).

The Manhattan Project of 1942 armed with digital computers needed to produce the calculations to create the world’s first atomic weapons (fission) and detonate them over two enemy targets in Japan in 1945.

The end of WWII triggered a cold war (1947 to 1989) and an arms race. In 1949 the Soviets developed their first nuclear weapon and in 1952 the United Kingdom detonated its first nuclear weapon. In 1952 America detonates its first Hydrogen Weapon and in 1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.

During the Korean War (1950 to 1953) and Vietnam War (1955 to 1975) America’s use of PSYOP Warfare, and electronic warfare continued. The strategic bombers of the 1960s had a 7.5kb memory and NASA equipment was no better.

The following is a list of some of the more significant uses of Cyber Warfare, stand-alone-system security, and technology prior to the turn of the century in 2000. Security, espionage, sabotage, and enemy use of technology are concerns of cyberwarfare experts.

2022 marks 200 years of computer services

Babbage Difference 1822

Radar 1930

Pearl Harbor Intelligence Failure 1941

Start of CIA 1947

Sputnik 1957

NASA 1958

U2 Spy Plane 1960

Supercomputer 1960

Cuban Missile Crises 1962

Internet (ARPANET) 1969

Stoned Virus 1987

Aldrich Ames 1994

Stealth Plane Technology 1997

Y2K 1999

09/11/2001 (911) Intelligence Failure

Killnet attack on Estonia 2007

Nashi attack on Estonia 2007

Stuxnet 2010

Julian Assange Wikileaks 2010

Edward Snowden 2013

Sony Pictures Hack 2014

New Space economy 2015

Political Hack of American Politics by Russia 2016

Political Hack(deep state)America 2020

Ukraine /Russia Conflict 2022

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