How Russia and China Exploit Asymmetric Cyber Advantages in Great Power Competition
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Mark Grzegorzewski
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This article from the Modern War Institute examines how Russia and China exploit asymmetric advantages in cyberspace as part of great power competition with the United States. It analyzes the strategic incorporation of the cyberspace domain by both nations, highlighting how they leverage cyber operations, information warfare, and cognitive domain manipulation to achieve strategic objectives without triggering conventional military escalation. The piece explores the doctrinal and operational approaches of both Russia and China, their use of cyber capabilities to target US and allied vulnerabilities, and the challenges these asymmetric strategies pose for US defense and deterrence frameworks.
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· 3 pulledWhen it comes to America's focus on great power competition, the cyberspace domain represents a critical arena where peer and near-peer competitors are exploiting asymmetric advantages.
Russia and China have demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of how to leverage cyber capabilities to achieve strategic effects below the threshold of armed conflict.
The information environment has become a battlespace where cognitive effects can be as decisive as kinetic ones.
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