Introduction
Immediately after the first gulf war in the early 1990’s the theories of Revolution in
Military Affairs (RMA) and Information Warfare were being studied all over the world as a
new kind of warfare. During that time, a course on Information Warfare was conducted
at the National Defense University of USA. The course participants were from senior
officers of the armed forces, representatives of Department of Defence and Department
of State and policy makers from the government. Rand Corporation of US was
conducting this course.
At the end of the course a cyber war game was conducted. The following scenario was
painted:
There is a major failure in national power grid. Cities became dark.
A cyber attack on a national financial system takes place. Stock markets crash.
Banking system fails. Widespread looting and riot takes place in malls and
departmental stores. Panic sets in.
The national air traffic control system starts malfunctioning. Two aircrafts carrying
passenger crashes after collision over the busiest air field in the country killing
more than 650 people on board.
The communication system and the mobile network stops functioning. The mobile
handsets start getting weird messages condemning the existing government.
National transporting network comes to a halt due to a glitch in the server.
Military command and control network fails, they are unable to speak to each
other.
A national emergency is declared.
