| Cyberarms... a new word for the future of warfare heard hear at the NY Times front page: The Obama administration has been engaged in a largely secret debate about whether cyberarms should be used like ordinary weapons, whether they should be rarely used covert tools or whether they should be reserved for extraordinarily rare use against the most sophisticated, hard-to-reach targets. And looming over the issue is the question of retaliation: whether such an attack on Syriaà ‚¬ „ s air power, its electric grid or leadership would prompt Syrian, Iranian or Russian retaliation in the United States. Soon after the uprising in Syria turned bloody, late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured a sophisticated cyberattack on the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assadà ‚¬ „ s command structure... read more, see the future... |
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