Internet is now a small piece of the warfare pie. (Score 1)

I basically agree with Gomez on virtually all of his points. I'm an ex-soldier, veteran of the US Army. During the gulf war of 1990 that he talks about I was an infantryman and luckily we were not deployed to the gulf. We served a security role for the US Army Commander in Chief of Europe, General Saint. Very cush job. Anyhow, we got to see first hand what state of the art weaponry will do to better than average Soviet stuff. In my opinion it wasn't even a fair fight, from the very first day the Iraqi Army (in total) faced a crushing defeat. Had President Bush decided to go to Baghdad it would have meant hundreds of thousands of enemy casualties. The Chinese don't want a conflict with us, believe me. Not only would they be defeated in any real war (not electronic or cyber related) but completely and totally destroyed. Again it wouldn't even be fair. We've got weaponry that flies in the air with impunity! I hope to God for their sake that the Chinese government officials are just bluffing. Any attempt by them to harm US business or government computer systems through this kind of attack would be foolish and allow our vastly superior efforts to "blank" them. Folks, we fought the Gulf War standing on one foot with two hands tied behind our backs, what do you think would happen if our Government thought there was a "real" war? It'd make the death toll of Russian soldiers during WWII seem relatively small. This is mearly blustering and a provocation if the article is true.