The hitting involves trying to destroy some of ISIS's command-and-control infrastructure, disrupting its lucrative oil business, and cutting its supply lines.
"To counter these threats, we will be forced to strengthen our air and missile defences in the western vector and to deploy additional means to defend the relevant command-and-control infrastructure," Ozerov told Ria Novosti.
"As the grid moves toward a more distributed model, the command-and-control infrastructure is moving to a more distributed model as well," Wolf says.
This is well exemplified by the "Amazon Zeus botnet" incident involving Amazon EC2's infrastructure [26], whereby cybercriminals, by initially hacking into a service hosted by the Amazon cloud infrastructure, were able to install command-and-control infrastructure with the aim of infecting client computers and stealing their banking credentials.
Most of Facebook's growth is international, where they've executed on a brilliant strategy for quickly rolling out localized versions of sites by getting their users to do the translation work for them (MySpace, by contrast, expands via a command-and-control infrastructure that puts people on the ground in each new international market).
"Doubling the number of interceptors with the same radar and command and control infrastructure would shoot down only a couple dozen more" warheads, Mr. Slocombe explained, according to the official familiar with the briefing.
When security firm FireEye disabled the Mega-D botnet's command and control infrastructure in early November 2009, its owners were able to resume their activities within a month.
Such technologies may also provide command and control infrastructure for communications with China's ballistic missile submarine force, not only helping it to evade detection but also to target any adversary.
