During Chiefs of Staff Committee meeting, Joint Doctrine was released laying emphasis on understanding military aspects of cyberspace operations.

• Cyberspace has emerged as crucial domain in modern warfare, in addition to traditional domains of Land, Sea, and Air.
• Preventing hostile actions in cyberspace, which can impact nation’s economy, cohesion, political decision-making, and ability to defend itself, highlights the need of Joint Doctrine.

Significance of Joint Doctrine

• Provides conceptual guidance to commanders of armed forces, staff and practitioners in planning and conducting Cyberspace Operations.
• Promote Jointness and Integration of three services (Army, Navy and Air Force).
• Integrated with national security strategies. This will help to develop goals, methods, and resources to gain benefits and impact events in all areas of operation and through all forms of power.

Cyberspace warfare 

• It is defined as a cyber-attack by state or no state actors that either constitute serious threat to a nation’s security or are conducted in response to a perceived threat against a nation’s security. 
• Cyber-attacks can disable official websites and networks, disrupt or disable essential services, steal or alter classified data, cripple financial systems etc.
• Cyber warfare ecosystem includes Cyber terrorism, Cyber Fraud, Cyber Spying, Cyber stalking.