Sun Tzu in Cyberspace

Cyberspace is often treated as transformational or exceptional relative to other domains and its evolution challenges assumptions regarding organizational roles and responsibilities, doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures both inside and outside the Department of Defense. This paper is based on the premise that strategy provides the conceptual foundation for most of these issues. Therefore, Sun Tzu's The Art of War provides a useful analytical framework for addressing these issues because its timeless and conceptual nature is not tied to a specific environment or context.