[karaterobot]

It isn't presumed, it's claimed by the U.S., and the presumption the author is making comes from granting that claim for the sake of his(facetious) argument.

Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. I don't think you'll find many countries making claims of weakness on defense-related topics. In the same way that no country would just announce that they have the 11th or 12th greatest military in the world, they'd never say they have the 2nd best cyber-warfare capability either.

[cookie_monsta]

Here in Australia I think most people would agree that our capabilities are are, ahh... y'know... not too shabby.

But then we like to walk softly and carry big sticks :)