While there is still a lot of debate about what is cyber warfare and cyber conflict, few experts deny that cyber warfare will play a leading role in future wars. In fact, given the military’s full reliance on computer networks in war – including collaborative attacks, operational weapons systems, communications – cyberspace has penetrated into all aspects of today’s war.
The major network powers – China, Russia and the United States – lack of interest in maintaining strategic stability in cyberspace, such as restricting the development of cyber warfare capabilities and putting more military budgets into cyber defense or attacks, small countries will lack sufficient financial resources And human resources to follow the development of large space in cyberspace. This imbalance in network power is one of the main reasons why the past few years have had little impact on the establishment of code of conduct, normative and trust measures in cyberspace.
It is not enough in the short term to rely solely on a diplomatic strategy to avoid warfare and to establish cyberspace codes of conduct. Moreover, the traditional alliance of diplomatic means is equally ineffective, because it is difficult to define what kind of behavior constitutes a network attack; also there is a recognized peacetime network attack attribution difficulties. This gives uncertainty about whether or not a country that has been attacked will receive allied aid. Thus, unlike traditional threats, small and medium-sized countries, even under a military alliance, have to rely more on their own capacity to respond to cyber emergencies.
