• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.71-80
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• 2023

Cyberspace has emerged as the fifth domain of warfare, alongside land, sea, air, and space. It has become a crucial focus for offensive and defensive military operations. Governments worldwide have demonstrated their intent to engage in offensive cyber operations within this domain. This paper proposes an innovative offensive cyber kill chain model that integrates the existing defensive strategy, the cyber kill chain model, with the joint air tasking order (ATO) mission execution cycle and joint target processing procedure. By combining physical and cyber operations within a joint framework, this model aims to enhance national cyber operations capabilities at a strategic level. The integration of these elements seeks to address the evolving challenges in cyberspace and contribute to more effective jointness in conducting cyber operations.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.41-48
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• 2021

Recently, the aspect of war is evolving due to the 4th industrial revolution technology. Among them, AI technology is changing the way of war as it is applied to advanced weapon systems and decision-making systems. Mosaic Warfare, presented by the U.S. DARPA, is shifting military warfare from attrition-centric warfare to decision-centric warfare by combining Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, mobile, and artificial intelligence technologies. In addition, it is a method to perform operations quickly so that the most offensive effect can be achieved by appropriately combining the distributed and deployed forces according to the battlefield context. In other words, military operations are not carried out through a uniform combat process, but various forces are operated through a distributed system depending on the battlefield context. In cyber warfare, as artificial intelligence is applied to cyber attack technology, there is a limit to responding with the same procedural response method as the existing cyber kill chain. Therefore, in this paper, the execution method of mosaic warfare is applied to perform context-resilient cyber operations that can operate a response system according to the attack and cyberspace context.