David C. Benson, "Stop Selling Cybersecurity Short!: Cybersecurity as a Component of National Power"

Often, policy makers and cybersecurity professionals talk
about cybersecurity as if cybersecurity is only important insofar
as it benefits or protects other assets or values. For example, it
is common to hear people argue that cybersecurity is important
because of its role in economic growth, or potential damage
military operations. Those arguments are not wrong, but they fail
to understand national power, and consequently grossly understate
cybersecurity's importance in international politics. Information
is a component of national power all on its own, and cybersecurity
is an important part of that component. Properly situating
information as a component of national power, and cybersecurity in
its appropriate place within information will better inform policy
and practice. Informational considerations should hold equal weight
in national policy, and not be subordinated military or economic
concerns. As a component of information power, cybersecurity
operates alongside other components of information power, and
should cooperate with, and learn from those components of
informational power.