>The thing you are missing is that every action like that carries a risk of causing a war much larger than the original action.
I fully understand that. The thing you are missing is that by ignoring act of cyber warfare from a foreign military and/or treating acts of war by a foreign military as a domestic criminal case, escalates the risk of causing acts of war much larger than if they were to be nipped in the bud now.
>As an Iraq combat vet who has spent quite a bit of time trying to understand these subjects, my general thought is that I really dislike so many armchair quarterbacks speculating and being so eager to throw away others lives
I trust you understand there are many uses of force that do not result in lost lives. The very nature of my argument is that the actions of China's military is an act of war and use of force...yet no lives were lost. As I said we should respond proportionately as authorized by the UN Charter and international law...I am not suggesting WW3, nukes or throwing away lives as has been suggested by countless people in this thread.
Just as much as I am admittedly "speculating" that treating cyber warfare by a foreign military will result in escalated attacks...it is also a speculation to suggest China will deescalate their cyber warfare against us.
So the question would fall to you is the US strategy of treating cyber warfare by a foreign military as crimes going to deescalate China's attacks here?
I fully understand that. The thing you are missing is that by ignoring act of cyber warfare from a foreign military and/or treating acts of war by a foreign military as a domestic criminal case, escalates the risk of causing acts of war much larger than if they were to be nipped in the bud now.
>As an Iraq combat vet who has spent quite a bit of time trying to understand these subjects, my general thought is that I really dislike so many armchair quarterbacks speculating and being so eager to throw away others lives
I trust you understand there are many uses of force that do not result in lost lives. The very nature of my argument is that the actions of China's military is an act of war and use of force...yet no lives were lost. As I said we should respond proportionately as authorized by the UN Charter and international law...I am not suggesting WW3, nukes or throwing away lives as has been suggested by countless people in this thread.
Just as much as I am admittedly "speculating" that treating cyber warfare by a foreign military will result in escalated attacks...it is also a speculation to suggest China will deescalate their cyber warfare against us.
So the question would fall to you is the US strategy of treating cyber warfare by a foreign military as crimes going to deescalate China's attacks here?