An interesting perspective has been presented over at Defense Tech today. My interest in “cyber war” has always been focused on how do you short circuit an attack to minimize penetration and damage to critical systems.
It seems that the Strategic Thinkers are working through another angle. Does a cyber attack, justify a conventional counter attack. In other words, if you attack my natural gas infrastructure, can I warm up the bombers and visit your place? The scary extension comes when the thought process moves to invoking Article 5 of the NATO charter.
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