Today (5/31) over at defensenews.com, commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and a member of the House Armed Services Committee jointly call for more cyber security, especially inthe supply chain. “It doesn’t make much sense to have a computer system built with chips and run on software created in the country that is the most active cyber espionage adversary we face.” Of more relevance to this course, they also assert that “the United States must clarify how it views a cyberattack and explain that it reserves the right to respond by force.”
The policy challenge to define when a cyber action equals an armed attack under the law of armed conflict is a central issue in the current policy debates, generating quite a lot of acadmeic literature.
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