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LIPPARD ADDS TO COMMENTARY ON COL. CHARLES W. WILLIAMSON III’S “CARPET BOMBING IN CYBERSPACE” ARTICLE, MAY AFJ (http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/05/3375884)

The major network service providers have already developed cooperative response capabilities to facilitate the use of routing changes and filtering to shut down malicious hosts. If a military botnet began a major [distributed denial-of-service] attack, providers would likely take action to put a stop to it. My presumption is that the military already has capabilities for cyberwarfare used to attack and compromise remote hosts. It's not clear to me that a military botnet hosted on military IPs would provide any benefit to such capabilities.

“The recent Middle East outages due to subsea cable breaks show the physical vulnerability of regional networks to certain kinds of attacks. In a military scenario where a particular country needed to be taken out, that kind of vulnerability is likely to exist for most countries the U.S. is likely to be at war with.”

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