| So you have group of 20 somethings in russia that you suspect are behind the hack. What do you do ? Sending a single missile/drone wont work because Russia has air defense (probably - with them you never know how on top they are, but they will after the 1st one). Sending multiple might work, but Russia might fire back and start a war. Sending special forces, or whatever would probably work better first few times, until Russia deliberately set's a trap for them. How about if they are form China, or maybe France or India and you don't relay have prof that would stand in court ? And then what, it's not like USA doesn't have its own hackers that do shady stuff internationally. Other countries have spacial forces as well. I am not sure we want to go this way. In practice that means US doing whatever they want in poor countries (where they already do whatever they want), and not doing much in powerful enough countries where most of those criminals actually are. Most of the time we don't even know definitively who is behind the hacks, so it's kind of a moot point. |