Russia blacked out Georgia's communcations, but also hacked away their internet during the August war. That may have been the first time hackers used their skills to directly support a ground assault.

No one is going to do anything like that to us anytime soon, but we need to keep our allies in mind, and we need to be better at everyone else at all types of warfare. The first thing to do is raise awareness of this.

First, raise the awareness in our military. For the last decade, control of "cyberwarfare" has bounced around the Pentagon like a football. The airforce made a play for it, but now they've fumbled again. Check out the first 3 posts here - http://blog.wired.com/defense/

Basically, we need to get our act together on offensive and defensive technological warfare. Secondly, we need to be a powerful and authoritative voice on this issue internationally. We need to make it clear that countries can't do this to one another, and that we will regard such activity as a form of aggression. This might sound a bit sci-fi, but technology is becoming far too relevant to push out of our minds. The United States has to be the major authority on both civil and military use of the internet, and we can't settle for anything less than that.

Yet another reason I feel national security will be in far better hands of a president who is actually attuned to the developments around him.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Do some more research in the Russian Georgian confilct as well as previous wars........

Thanks for filling me in? What can you illuminate about this situation?

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So what exactly do you object to? What previous wars did something of this scale happen in? Are you unconcerned about this?