For years, politicians have had concerns about cyber issues being used for warfare. However, cyber issues has been proved to be more of a confusion-causing tool, which leads to economic disruption.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr, who was the former US assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, and now a professor at Harvard University, Member of Board of Thinkers of The Boston Global Forum, expressed his consternation of a potential devil-cyber system: “A doctrine for hybrid warfare that blends conventional weapons, economic coercion, information operations, and cyber-attacks” as described by Russian chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov.
To demonstrate his point of view, Prof. Joseph Nye used many prime examples of the damage caused by cyber.attacks In December 2015, for example, Russian hackers successfully carried out the first cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid, compromising information systems of three energy distribution companies and disrupting electricity supply to consumers. Social media is thought to be the perfect instrument for sowing confusion, as was seen in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Several measures are suggested to address the situation, the most important of which is that the US must be aware of the potential for cyber-attacks, particularly those that involve the manipulation of social media.