Cyber War Can Be Real War

While we’re worrying, with justification, about the possibility of all-out nuclear war in the Middle East we also need to consider the possibilities inherent in a simple device that you are looking at right now.

That device is your computer, and the means of delivery of untold mayhem is the Internet. Revenge hacking is an old deal and recently The Democrats for Life web site, was maliciously hacked for by pro abortionists. Now big web sites experience frequent malicious attacks.

Recently, the Vatican was hacked. A group of hackers took credit for it, with a pompous statement claiming that they were attacking the Catholic Church, not individual Christians. Last month The World Weekly, which is a UK magazine, was shut down by hackers after they had criticized the Turkish president.

Cyber warfare has the potential to cripple entire nations in one swoop, and it can do it without spending a dime or firing a shot.

The primary purpose of bombing in warfare is to destroy the war-making capacity of a nation. The targets are the means of building armaments, transportation links and the infrastructure of the nation. If bombing is able to destroy these things, it will destroy the ability of the nation to carry war forward on a mass scale.

Cyber warfare can accomplish most of these same purposes. It can shut down economic systems, cripple or even halt modern manufacturing, bring the flow of traffic to a halt, and destroy communication at all levels of government, including among first responders. It can completely scramble the internal communications of nations or whole regions of the world.

Cyber warfare also has the potential to be the ultimate code-breaker. It can obtain data of all types from government, business and individuals, revealing their plans, finances and secrets.

Cyber warfare can be real warfare. If it is backed up with more traditional forms of war making such as bombing and troop deployment, its tactical impact is almost beyond reckoning.

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