The language may be ahead of events in this case. We don’t need the language when there is no actual cyberwarfare. There has been no cyberwar in developed cou

The language may be ahead of events in this case. We don’t need the language when there is no actual cyberwarfare. There has been no cyberwar in developed countries even after 25 years of the Internet. Cybercriminality yes; cyberwar, no. For some, that’s like the Coyote in Roadrunner cartoons running off the cliff but staying in the air. He’s got to fall sometime. At that point, military language and mindset would be useful. But in Western countries, the idea of preparedness got drilled into the political psyche with WWI and WWII. You do not want to be unprepared...young men die needlessly when you are unprepared. Be glad it’s just language. Formality of ops, chain of command, well-defined priorities, ability to respond under stress, exercises to assess what you can actually do rather than what you think you can do...combined with a well-honed working culture to support those operating under those conditions. But we do a lot of that in IT? Yes, and the basic ideas arose from military culture first. When we compartmentalize in schooling military from agriculture from health from engineering from law, students lose the perspective of what those other cultures have provided and do provide. BTW IT could learn a lot from the military about supporting the whole life of the worker.