Bennett says the Israel Defense Forces recognizes the need to bring technological skills out of secure spaces and into the battlefield.
“On the operational level, the IDF is now promoting a remarkable hybrid program where folks who are brilliant, boys and girls who are fighters will also be trained in various cyber activities and bring them to a tactical level,” Bennett says.
“The future is hybrid warfare, cyber and physical combined. If a hundred years ago we were talking about tanks to tanks, tanks to airplanes, infantry… in the past few decades, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of cyber to cyber. Hacking websites, or hacking critical internet infrastructure.
In apparent confirmation of two 2020 Iranian attacks against Israeli water systems, Bennett says cyberwarfare can create physical world consequences.
“We’re seeing a lot more cyber that creates a physical impact. It can change sewage systems. It can change the amount of chloride in the water and poison people. It can have a real-life effect.”
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