CyberStorm: An Apocalyptic Thriller

by Matthew Mather

How Space and Cyberspace are Merging to Become the Primary Battlefield of the 21st Century Article by Matthew Mather Originally appeared in Space Quarterly Magazine For those of you who might be interested in a deep dive into the idea of the merger of space and cyberspace, I wrote a whitepaper a few years back—this is a bit more of a serious article so gets a technical, but, if you’ve just finished reading CyberStorm, I thought you might find interesting for a taste of what’s coming. With that warning—I hope you enjoy this article I wrote for Space Magazine. CYBERSPACE AND OUTER space are merging to become the primary battlefield for global power in the 21st century. Both space and cyberspace systems are critical in enabling modern warfare—for strike precision, navigation, communication, information gathering—and it therefore makes sense to speak of a new, combined space-cyberspace military high-ground. This article will discuss the similarities, key differences, and potential consequences of this. From the moment Sputnik was launched in 1957, and everyone’s head turned skyward, space has occupied the military high-ground, defining much of the next fifty years of global geopolitics. Space-based systems, for the first time, broke the link between a nation’s physical territory and its global ability to gather information, communicate, navigate, and project power. In the 1980’s, the rise of advanced information and communications technology enabled the creation of the i...

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