{"id":28830,"date":"2011-10-18T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_debated_cyberwarfare_in_attack_plan_on_libya\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:20:30","slug":"u-s-_debated_cyberwarfare_in_attack_plan_on_libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28830","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government\u2019s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have been to break through the firewalls of the Libyan government\u2019s computer networks to sever military communications links and prevent the early-warning radars from gathering information and relaying it to missile batteries aiming at NATO warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>But administration officials and even some military officers balked, fearing that it might set a precedent for other nations, in particular Russia or China, to carry out such offensives of their own, and questioning whether the attack could be mounted on such short notice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/18\/world\/africa\/cyber-warfare-against-libya-was-debated-by-us.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government\u2019s air-defense system, which threatened allied<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28830\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,143,149,144,617,114,531,616,151,667,95,618,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-house-of-representatives","category-law-legal-issues","category-libya","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-science-technology","category-senate","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}