Writing in The Washington Post this morning, Ellen Nakashima reviews the evolving debate over cyber-security: Specifically, is it OK to pre-empt a gathering threat. Indeed, strategists are going to have to grapple with all the precedents, from the canon of international law to the Cold War to the Iraq War:
The Pentagon has standing rules of engagement for network defense, such as the right of self-defense. But the line between self-defense and offensive action can be difficult to discern.
"This is a big, big problem," said one former intelligence official who noted that it took years to develop nuclear deterrence doctrine. "We are just at the beginning of figuring this out."
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