For more than three hundred years the world wrestled with conflicts that arose between nation-states Nation-states wielded military force financial pressure & diplomatic persuasion to create world order Even after the end of the Cold War the elements comprising world order remained essentially unchanged p But 2012 marked a transformation in geopolitics & the tactics of both the established powers & smaller entities looking to challenge the international community That year the US government revealed its involvement in Operation Olympic Games a mission aimed at disrupting the Iranian nuclear program through cyberattacks Russia & China conducted massive cyber-espionage operations & the world split over the governance of the Internet Cyberspace became a battlefield p Cyber conflict is hard to track often delivered by proxies & has outcomes that are hard to gauge It demands that the rules of engagement be completely reworked & all the old niceties of diplomacy be recast Many of the critical resources of statecraft are now in the hands of the private sector giant technology companies in particular In this new world order cybersecurity expert Adam Segal reveals power has been well & truly hacked