NATO says cyber attacks a call to arms

The Cyber domain is a potential field of battle that has become as ubiquitous as electricity. It reaches into our homes, our businesses, and literally every vital operational center in the world. That said, when someone fires a gun at a power plant, or a pirate takes over an oil tanker, it doesn't mean their home of origin is declaring war on your country. Everything is proportional.

As others have mentioned we are entering into another cold war. What we have seen lately are attacks on economies, infrastructure and political institutions through cyber warfare. The response to these attacks doesn't have to be by force of arms, just like it wasn't in the cold war. But we have to acknowledge this for what it is and respond with appropriate actions to both protect ourselves and our allies and discourage further attacks.

Perhaps some of these states perpetrating the attacks find their own infrastructure taken down by something similar. Who would do such a thing, who knows, but perhaps one day it just happens.

SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint I've read the article a couple times now and I would agree with the idea that any attack should be considered an act of war. My question is what would an appropriate response be? Should the response be with 1s and 0s, a cyber attack or would the more appropriate response be kinetic? Take out the servers, workstations, buildings and people that launched the initial attack?