Commentary
Things were a lot simpler when we were fighting the Redcoats nearly two and a half centuries ago. Before he famously rode into history in the midnight hour, alerting Colonial militia of the approach of British troops, Paul Revere arranged for Boston’s North Church to use lanterns in its steeple to signal to colonists which route the British were taking in their invasion—“One if by land, two if by sea.”
Cyberspace, rather than the lands or the waters, is the battleground upon which communist China is waging a subtle, sophisticated long war against the United States and the rest of the free world. Instead of hearing the warning that “the British are coming,” Americans were told earlier this month by the director of the FBI that the Chinese not only had already arrived but had placed their personal information and computer and smartphone capability at risk….