US military lacks strong cyberwar regulations

The United States government still has not formed a coherent policy for engaging in warfare involving attacks on a country's electrical power grids and other important infrastructure, states a non-profit group of scientists and policy advisors.

The board mentioned above added that many nuances of cyberwar, such as high degree of anonymity of those who carry out such attacks, making it hard to identify those who perpetrate them, etc., remained poorly understood, even though military actively prepares for it.

The specialists highlighted that such attacks resulted in much more uncertain outcomes than traditional warfare. Thus, success and collateral damage of them were harder to predict.

The statement continues by saying that "enduring unilateral dominance in cyberspace is neither realistic nor achievable by the United States," and says "deterrence of cyberattacks by the threat of in-kind response has limited applicability."