Next months NATO summit in Poland is likely to enter the history books as the event where cyberspace was officially declared an operational warzone, according to a German official. Major General Ludwig Leinhos, who heads the German military’s effort to build up a separate cyber command, announced that all 28 NATO member states are likely to agree to the proposal during the Warsaw summit which takes place in the Polish capital on July 8-9 RT reports: Leinhos, a former director at NATO Headquarters Consultation, Command and Control Staff, is known at home for heading the German military’s efforts to establish a cyber command of its own, similar to the one created in the United States. Also in Berlin, Evert Dudok, a senior official at Airbus Group SE, one of Europe’s largest aerospace corporations, called for the introduction of global or trans-European standards for cyberspace. The US acknowledged the notion of cyberspace being a new war dimension years ago, enacting the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) on June 23, 2009, to fulfill tasks related to cyber combat. In 2011 Washington announced it regards cyberspace as an operational domain of war, equating digital attacks to those in the real world, and preparing [...]