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Editor’s note: This is part of a series of analyses on the emergence of cyberspace as battlespace.
Russia’s offensive against Georgia began not with tanks or fighter jets, but in cyberspace. Stratfor knows firsthand that Georgian government and media Web sites began to crash the night of Aug. 7 — well before Russian troops emerged on the south side of the Roki Tunnel in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia the following morning. Though much that takes place in cyberspace is deniable, there is little doubt that a concerted offensive cyberwarfare campaign against Tbilisi shifted into high gear that night. And cyberwarfare appears to be emerging as a principal tool for Moscow’s operations on its periphery.
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