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civil society which do not suit the attacking party. At the same time, it is not enough for
our analysis, because we have to view all these macrotargets as sets of components, and
then to specify these components by technological instrumental elements for solving our
problem in an aspect of a possible cyber-intrusion.
Let us try to do that without many sophisticated arguments but by transparent
illustrations. First of all we can assert that several ICT-oriented social trends that allow
us, on the one hand, to distinguish IW, netwar and cyberwar, and on the other hand, to
have displayed the social sectors and economy sectors as cybertargets of cyberattacks
(see fig. 2) have already formed. The phenomena of the information society predefine
the appearance of two areas: the area of collaboration and the area of collisions both
inland and between clusters of states.
We consider the
digital divide
as a cause for allocation of zones of activity for netwar,
cyberwar and IW, but according to John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt
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“Netwar refers to an emerging mode of conflict at societal levels, involving
measures short of traditional war, in which the protagonists use network forms of
organization and related doctrines, strategies, and technologies attuned to the
information age. These protagonists are likely to consist of dispersed small
groups who communicate, coordinate, and conduct their campaigns in an
internetted manner, without a precise central command”.
Fig. 2. ICT-oriented social trends
And further: “netwar - societal-level ideological conflicts are waged in part through
internetted modes of communication - and cyberwar at the military level. These terms
are admittedly novel, and better ones may yet be devised. But for now they help
illuminate a useful distinction and identify the breadth of ways in which the information
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