Digital Technologies and Security: Towards a Recomposition of the Strategic Field of Information Warfare?
Abstract:
Digital technologies are often described as transforming security and war, yet their strategic effects remain contested. This article argues that cyber capabilities and related digital infrastructures are better understood as recomposing the strategic field rather than inaugurating a discrete Revolution in Military Affairs. Drawing on large-N datasets of interstate cyber incidents, illustrative case studies, and policy and doctrinal documents, it traces how digital tools reshape instruments of coercion, diversify relevant actors beyond states, and blur domestic and external spaces of security. The analysis highlights governance dilemmas for deterrence, alliance coordination, and the regulation of platform power.
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Mahmoud El Materi University
Bab El Bhar, Tunis
Dr. Tewfik Hamel is a researcher and lecturer specialising in strategic studies, military history, and geopolitics. He is Professor of Regional Geopolitics at Mahmoud El Materi University (Tunisia). He holds a PhD in History from Paul-Valéry University (Montpellier, France), a Master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Diploma in European Studies from the University of Strasbourg, and a Maîtrise in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Algiers. He is also an associate researcher at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (France) and the Institute for Applied Geopolitical Studies (France). He is the author of Guerre biologique: De la peste noire aux armes du futur, to be published soon by Éditions du Cerf (France). He is also a consultant at Stractegia (Spain).
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Journal of Information Warfare
The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.
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