US Navy: ‘Non-kinetic effects’ will likely decide the next war

Published on November 26, 2023



The service’s new cyber strategy lays out lines of effort for a new era of warfare.

What is seapower’s decisive weapon? Not missiles or torpedoes, declares the U.S. Navy’s new cyber strategy.

“The next fight against our major adversary will be like no other,” the 14-page document begins. “The use of non-kinetic effects and defense against those effects prior to and during kinetic exchanges will likely be the deciding factor in who prevails.”

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