> “Indeed, while the focus of US debate is more frequently on fears of a so-called ‘digital Pearl Harbor’, the more serious problem may actually be a long-term economic ‘death by a thousand cuts’.”

There's so much to unpack here, from parallels with the Cold War and discovery of the uncrossable lines on the path to mutually assured destruction, to plausible deniability and its impact on the ability of democratic states to reasonably react to and apply cyber warfare techniques with sovereign state opponents. We've been wondering how the future of cyberwarfare will play out for so long, and we're just now perhaps realizing that we are the boiling frog.