Cyberspace and Insurgency

Cyberspace is an ‘emergent phenomenon’ ¹ of the Information Age at the beginning of which, for better or worse, humanity now finds itself. No good historian would yet attempt to write a history of its impact upon human society because it is still too early to tell. Nevertheless we implicitly understand that it is very large because cyberspace already touches so many aspects of daily life. Individuals, groups, corporations and governments are investing enormous amounts of time and money in cyberspace. It is transforming the way we do all sorts of things from the ways in which we make money and govern ourselves to the ways in which we maintain friendships and find spiritual and intellectual sustenance. It is also changing the way that we fight wars of all sorts, including insurgency.