Richards continued: "At present Nato is not attacking infrastructure targets in Libya.
The bombers, abandoning the fantasy of delivering knockout blows, concentrated on repeat bombings of infrastructure targets like railroad yards and bridges.
Since then, there have been 1,216 strikes on oil infrastructure targets and tankers, reducing production by 25% and cutting revenue by 10%.
Infrastructure targets are usually met in China because governments have little trouble with not-in-my-backyard protests.But some economists believe this is all too much.
The New Forest test is historically important because it heralded an expansion in the crucial strategic air offensive against key infrastructure targets in Nazi Germany.
The general suggested NATO should be freed from restraints that have precluded attacking infrastructure targets; other NATO officials have suggested in recent weeks that these could include elements of the electrical power grid in government-held areas, and fuel dumps.
The warning came a day after Britain's top general was quoted as saying that NATO would have to broaden its bombing campaign to include infrastructure targets in Libya to prevent Colonel Qaddafi from "clinging to power".
To planners in China, such activity would be seen as no different from the sort of contingency planning and cyberoperations the United States undertakes toward Chinese military and infrastructure targets.
The new report declared that Al Qaeda was stronger than at any time since September 11th, and that it was "likely to continue to focus on prominent political, economic, and infrastructure targets with the goal of producing mass casualties, visually dramatic destruction, significant economic aftershocks, and /or fear among the U.S. population".
(The initial U.S. Air Force proposals for an air attack to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity, which included the option of intense bombing of civilian infrastructure targets inside Iran, have been resisted by the top leadership of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps, according to current and former officials.
