Given the recent manifesto by VADM's Card and Rogers in USNI Proceedings
("The Navy's Newest Warfighting Imperative") regarding the criticality of
cyberspace to the Navy's future, done in breathless metaphors to military
operations in the "other" domains, Dr. Libicki offers an important
"minority report" questioning the appropriateness of those metaphors, and
the overall philosophy behind our emerging doctrine for using cyberspace
(and information more generally) to relative advantage.

I think it unfortunate that this important essay languishes in a somewhat
obscure Law Journal, at least from the point of view of the military
audience that it could benefit. I think we are in danger of going down the
primrose path of wishful thinking we did with JV2010 in painting the
picture the good VADM's Proceedings article does about how to realize the
benefits and mitigate the risks associated with cyberspace, in terms of how
we deal with physical domains. The deja vu associated with the siren song
of "information dominance" harkens back to how the "fog of war" was going to
be lifted in JV2010 if only we interconnected everything and Metcalf's law
paid us the bonanza. Dr. Libicki makes a strong argument that leveraging
cyberspace may best be done on its own terms, and not through treating it
as another peg to be mashed into an ill-fitting doctrinal "domain" hole.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/gr.../4.Libicki.pdf

Hat tip to my colleague Bob Manke for bringing this to my attention.