Key Terrain Cyber

Key Terrain Cyber is a professional journal dedicated to educating our readers about cyberspace warfare, influence operations, military communications, space operations, and intelligence. We also provide information about how China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are shaping the strategic environment that frames the conduct of these activities. KTC offers research fellowships to service-members that provide them with mentors and advances their professional development. Before you leave, please stop at our Information Warfare Memorial and pay your respects to the information warriors who lost their lives supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  •     Iran’s Cyber-Domain Efforts Through Unconventional Warfare Forces Against Israel.

    The modern world’s appetite for a kinetic conflict is seemingly at an all-time low. Across the world, major conflicts are continuously denounced by the world stage, forcing the international community to often support one side or the other in order to push for a quicker ending to a conflict; regardless of how the end is…

  • Decision Points: Executive Update 3.30.26

    Strategic Context The past week has highlighted how conflict in the Middle East will impact the global system beyond the energy sector. Disruption in the Gulf is beginning to…

  • Decision Points: Weekly Update – 3.29.26

    March 29, 2026 Strategic Context The past week has been shaped by a widening gap between immediate risk and ongoing strategic competition. Escalation concerns around Iran are driving that…

  • The Lunar Gold Rush: Opportunity and Perils in the New Space Race

    The idea of industrializing the Moon, once relegated to the realm of science fiction, is now becoming more realistic. The moon is emerging as a potential site for industrialization as humanity looks beyond Earth for resources and opportunities. One of the primary motivations for lunar industrialization is the presence of valuable resources. The Moon is…

  • In Memory of Captain Chris Pate

    On July 21st 2006 Capt Pate was operating as a member of Military Training Team, tasked to mentor Iraqi soldiers in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. He was not scheduled to work that day, but volunteered to leave the wire and help his teammates conduct security patrols. An insurgent detonated an Improvised Explosive Device…

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