CNA

at 194 ("Some systems initially designed for military use have become so integrated into civilian society that any interference or disruption caused by computer network attacks would have serious effects on civilians.").

President Barack Obama has labeled computer network attacks "one of the most serious economic and national security risks we face as a nation," (30) and stated, "America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity." (31) The gravity expressed in these statements, although serious, is mild compared to the fears of cyber-security experts.

Robertson, Jr., Seli-Defense Against Computer Network Attack, 76 INT'L L.

INFORMATION OPERATIONS, reprinted in COMPUTER NETWORK ATTACK AND

(269.) Michael Schmitt, Wired Warfare: Computer Network Attack and the Jus in Bello', in Michael Schmitt and Brian O'Donnell (eds), Computer Network Attack and International Law (Naval War College, 2002) 187.

In light of this interpretation, does computer network attack fall outside the ambit of "attacks" because it does not employ violence?

Bayles, The Ethics of Computer Network Attack, PARAMETERS, Spring 2001, at 44, 45.

Part IV shows how an experimental safe harbor focused on Internet protocol version six could align the interests of military and civilian policymakers on the common goal of protecting critical infrastructure from a computer network attack originating in the People's Republic of China.

critical infrastructure is adequately defended from computer network attack, or if the notion of cyber war is over-hyped.

Organizationally, the activation on 1 October 2009 of the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) brought together computer network attack (CNA) and computer network defense (CND) activities of the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare (JFCC-NW) and the Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) under the USCYBERCOM.

are divided into three categories: computer network attack, computer