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Why The US Will Lose a Cyber War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-enough-code-red dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's not another nation in the world that can wage kinetic warfare as effectively as the United States, and that's probably at the heart of the reason why the United States will lose a war fought in cyberspace, leading cyber security analyst Jeffrey Carr writes."

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  1. Re:It just works like that by cavreader · · Score: 4, Interesting

    China has increased it's import of food by a factor of 5 from the US just over the past 6 years. On the other hand China makes nothing the US can not produce domestically or import from other emerging countries who can also pay their employees a dollar a day to create cheap products. China has also started reporting trade deficits and inflation is driving their export prices up past the point where their currency manipulations can control. Doing anything to really piss off the US would threaten 30% of their current export market while the US might see a slight increase in prices for imported goods.

  2. We won't lose the war, we'll lose the first battle by divisionbyzero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And then in typical American reactive manner we'll dump a bunch of money into cybersecurity and thereby create the military-IT complex...