Every so often a new technology emerges that puts into question existing definitions of behavior. In international relations, this often happens as a result of new weapons being introduced that substantively affect the conduct of war. The advent of strategic air power gave great powers a new tool for coercion, namely the capability to inflict massive amounts of damage on the civilian population in the hopes of forcing political change—mainly surrender. Though strategic air power did not invent the notion of targeting civilians, a combination of accident and obsession with its hypothetical utility led strategic air power to substantively . . .
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It has been well-known for a while that China is prodding and poking at U.S. computer networks looking for sensitive information. Some of the most serious security breaches in U.S. government agencies and private companies over the past few years originated in China, but because of the unique characteristics of cyberspace it has been difficult to attribute these incursions to specific groups or individuals. In other words, we have not known if the incursions came from some Chinese teenage hacker or a government official working on orders from the higher-ups. That seems to have changed, according to U.S. State . . . Four Republican senators have sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates suggesting radar crucial to the missile defense system NATO agreed to field at its November summit in Lisbon be relocated from a proposed site in Turkey to Georgia (h/t Josh Rogin). Getting New START ratified in the face of Republican claims that Obama had traded American missile defense in Europe for Russia’s acquiescence to the treaty—despite administration missile defense plans having been available for some time—came close enough to souring already tenuous U.S.-Russian relations but few suggestions could be worse than moving missile defense radars to Georgia. |
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