A military response to cyberattacks is preposterous

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

A military response to cyberattacks is preposterous
By Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble
JUN 2, 2011 12:03 EDT
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/06/02/a-military-response-to-cyberattacks-is-preposterous/

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon’s first cyber
security strategy will say that cyberattacks can be acts of war
meriting retaliatory military attack. The policy threatens to repeat
the overreaction and needless conflict that plagued American foreign
policy in the past decade. It builds on national hysteria about
threats to cybersecurity, the latest bogeyman to justify our bloated
national security state. A wiser approach would put the threat in
context to calm public fears and avoid threats that diminish future
flexibility.

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