"We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman.
For now at least, the company does not face a price war in cyberspace.
The hacking accusations discussed last week continue, and The New York Times reported on Monday on the "new cold war" in cyberspace between the United States and China.
Having leapfrogged into the internet age, and with a high level of competence in both English and Russian, few countries are better placed than Estonia to fight a propaganda war in cyberspace.Estonia's biggest advantage is Russia's stupidity.
In the modern era, organised crime frequently uses the "sovereign-free" areas of the international system, where state control is weak or ineffective - such as war zones, cyberspace and private bank accounts - to operate.
A senior US military commander confirmed to me that the recommendations and insights in my report, The Laws of War and Cyberspace, published today are sound – but also made clear that generals won't be leading the charge.
There is no regulation whatsoever of war in cyberspace – unlike conventional forms of battle, which are subject to an extensive set of international treaty laws signed and respected by the vast majority of the world's states.
What followed was what some here describe as the first war in cyberspace, a monthlong campaign that has forced Estonian authorities to defend their pint-size Baltic nation from a data flood that they say was set off by orders from Russia or ethnic Russian sources in retaliation for the removal of the statue.
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Cyberspace has become a war front for ideas, with Iranian hackers attacking opposition and Western Web sites, especially Twitter.
"Nations, militaries, governments are hacking" now, he said, and "militaries -- including the U.S. military -- plan to fight the next war in cyberspace".
