War is a continuation of policy…by other means. – Carl von Clausewitz – Military Historian.
That’s a loose definition.
In my own view, war presupposes violence. Did any Merck drug recipients die? If they did, then maybe it’s war. Was there physical injury to persons or property? Honestly, Russia is a Mafia State so their actions in THIS instance more resemble crime than war. One cannot go off defining a great deal of things as real war or the shooting will begin much more readily. War is one of those things you cannot define, but you know it when you see it.
You contradict yourself. You say, “War is one of those things you cannot define.” Yet, you define it by asserting that since no Merck drug recipients died” and questioning whether there was “physical injury to persons or property”, that this must not be “war”, but rather “crime”. Further, your assert “war presupposes violence”. So again you are forming a definition of a word (“war”) that, by your very words, can not be cannot be defined. I assert that “crime” and “war” are not mutually exclusive. Hence, we have used the term, “war crimes” for decades. Taken a step further, I assert that the use of cyber attacks are “crimes committed” in the course of “war”. Very simply, they are the weapons. Finally, definitely, cyber attacks can cause significant physical property damage. It’s called bricking in the industry.
War is a continuation of policy…by other means. – Carl von Clausewitz – Military Historian.
That’s a loose definition.
In my own view, war presupposes violence. Did any Merck drug recipients die? If they did, then maybe it’s war. Was there physical injury to persons or property? Honestly, Russia is a Mafia State so their actions in THIS instance more resemble crime than war. One cannot go off defining a great deal of things as real war or the shooting will begin much more readily. War is one of those things you cannot define, but you know it when you see it.
Was the Cold War not a war?
No it wasn’t, despite the assigned name to that political period.
You contradict yourself. You say, “War is one of those things you cannot define.” Yet, you define it by asserting that since no Merck drug recipients died” and questioning whether there was “physical injury to persons or property”, that this must not be “war”, but rather “crime”. Further, your assert “war presupposes violence”. So again you are forming a definition of a word (“war”) that, by your very words, can not be cannot be defined. I assert that “crime” and “war” are not mutually exclusive. Hence, we have used the term, “war crimes” for decades. Taken a step further, I assert that the use of cyber attacks are “crimes committed” in the course of “war”. Very simply, they are the weapons. Finally, definitely, cyber attacks can cause significant physical property damage. It’s called bricking in the industry.