Just cyber war
The New York Times has an interesting article that addresses just war issues surrounding cyber warfare. According to the article, the U.S. was considering a major cyber offensive during the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, but fears of collateral damage prevented many of the plans from coming to fruition. The Obama Administration, which recently set up a military Cyber Command and a cybersecurity directorate at the National Security Council, is closely studying the “risks of unintended harm to civilians and damage to civilian infrastructure” in cyber warfare. One military officer is quoted as saying, “We are deeply concerned about the second- and third-order effects of certain types of computer network operations, as well as about laws of war that require attacks be proportional to the threat.” The article also quotes Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith who notes that there is lots of uncertainty surrounding the application of international law to cyber war: “The U.N. Charter basically says that a nation cannot use force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any other nation. But what kinds of cyberattacks count as force is a hard question, because force is not clearly defined.”
-Marc
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