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In the United States, cyberspace is a world that is very important in all sectors of peoples lives. The virtual world provides information distribution and is a vital communication medium, both for the government, trade, academia and private sectors. The virtual world in the United States supports hundreds of trillions of very important transactions, such as electricity grid services, sanitation, health services, law enforcement, and emergency calls. For the US government, information technology is very important for almost everything, such as communication and sharing information in daily work, research and development, collaboration with educational institutions and the private sector, command and control in the military, intelligence work, and logistical, managerial work , and administrative government. Second, for the United States military, they are very dependent on global networks. The United States military global cyber network consists of 15,000 local networks and 7 million computers connected by more than 100,000 telecommunications circuits throughout the world. Meanwhile, the spread of the use of information technology and computer networks which later became the center of US strategy also caused its own problems. Dependence on cyberspace results in exploitation of the fragility of the United States. This has the potential to provide an opportunity for opponents to obtain important knowledge such as plans, capabilities, and military operations of the United States. In certain cases, opponents can even disrupt communication and disrupt the civil and economic infrastructure of the community. This study aims to comprehensively understand the importance of cyberspace in US foreign policy. By using qualitative methods researchers will analyze in depth the virtual world priorities for the United States, especially in its foreign policy.