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NATO Officially Recognizes Cyberspace As A War Fighting Domain

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016

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NATO Officially Recognizes Cyberspace As A War Fighting Domain

BRUSSELS – The NATO alliance has agreed to treat cyberspace as a domain of war, a recognition of the importance of computing in modern conflict, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.The alliance’s recognition of the Internet and other digital networks as a combat domain follows similar distinctions by the U.S. and other militaries that cyberspace is a fundamental element of modern conflict. It also means that any NATO member nation, under a cyber-attack, can invoke the all-in Article 5 clause binding…

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