Chapter Ten: Military cyber capabilities

The Military Balance has in recent editions carried, for some states, short statements of factors (such as national plans and organisations) deemed relevant to determining national capabilities for military cyber operations. We have this year dispensed with this method. Instead, and in line with work emerging from the Institute’s research into measuring the national cyber capabilities of states, we are in this edition outlining more systematically the factors that we judge useful in understanding a nation’s military cyber capability and that we will in future integrate in our Military Balance+ database.