12 February 2016

Editorial: Strategic Culture and Cyberspace - Cyber Militias in Peacetime?

By Shawn W. Crispin

It’s time to see how the concept of strategic culture can be used in understanding national approaches to cybersecurity.

India’s premier security think tank, the Institute for Strategic and Defence Analysis (IDSA), just held its first major international conference on cyber security. Its focus on Asian and international perspectives has delivered distinctly Un-American perspectives on security in cyber space.

The three-day meeting coincided with the release by President Obama on February 9 of a bold new initiative, the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP). The gulf between the concepts and programs elaborated in the U.S. plan and those of several Asian or Asia Pacific states (India, Japan, China, Pakistan) and Taiwan, revealed at the IDSA meeting has been stark indeed.

Read the full story at The Diplomat