A force made from networks of autonomous systems creates opportunities for an outsider to seize or redirect command. Even a minor power could go to great lengths to control one exceptional hacker if that person could alter the outcome of a battle. Cyber expertise would become a strategic resource that states might recruit, coerce, or try to monopolise. This creates a human vulnerability inside a system intended to reduce dependence on people at the front. Distributed command can move the critical point from a platform to the person capable of controlling its network.
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Autonomy turns elite cyber talent into a strategic resource
If control of a distributed autonomous force depends on rare cyber skill, states may compete to recruit, coerce, or monopolise the people who possess it.