Supremacy by Accelerated Warfare through the Comprehension Barrier and Beyond: Reaching the Zero Domain and Cyberspace Singularity
This proposes a novel conceptual framework for cyber warfare strategy, though it appears incremental as an extension of existing military concepts like A2AD to cyberspace.
The paper argues that cyber supremacy cannot be achieved through traditional capacity-building but instead requires accelerating engagement velocity beyond an adversary's comprehension, creating a 'Zero Domain' where the faster actor gains superiority through cyber Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) without direct conflict.
It is questionable and even unlikely that cyber supremacy could be reached by overwhelming capabilities manifested by stacking more technical capacity and adding attack vectors. The alternative is to use time as the vehicle to supremacy by accelerating the velocity of the engagements beyond the speed at which the enemy can target, and precisely execute and comprehend the events unfolding. The space created beyond the adversary's comprehension is called the Zero Domain. Military traditionally sees the battle space as land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains. When fighting the battle beyond the adversary's comprehension, no traditional warfighting domain serves as a battle space; it is not a vacuum nor an unclaimed terra nullius, but instead the Zero Domain. In the Zero Domain, cyberspace superiority surfaces as the outfall of the accelerated time and a digital space-separated singularity that benefit the more-rapid actor. The Zero Domain has a time space that is accessible only by the rapid actor and a digital landscape that is not accessible by the slower actor due to the execution velocity in enhanced accelerated warfare. Velocity achieves cyber Anti AccessArea Denial A2AD, which can be achieved without active initial interchanges by accelerating the execution and cyber ability in a solitaire state. During this process, any adversarial probing engagements only affect the actor on the approach to the Comprehension Barrier and once arrived in the Zero Domain a complete state of A2AD is present.