http://youtube.com/watch?v=AJW_hLM1pWIhttp://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/101708-1/Richard Aldrich: Electronic warfare has been around a long time and had already reached quite a level of sophistication during the Second World War. However, the new aspect of this operation was the use of network attacks. It appears that the command and control systems of the Syrian military were directly attacked by Israelis using computers as weapons. This is a specialist form of military hacking. For many years there has been an active debate about how practical and realistic the idea of pure 'network warfare' really is. During the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s this activity seemed to be limited to fairly trivial "denial of service" attacks.
Now, perhaps we have seen the first live example of the military application of network warfare.
One of the troubling issues with network warfare is that it is hard for the victim to know if they have been attacked - or merely suffered a network failure. Even if they are sure they are being attacked, they can't always tell who is attacking them?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jUUqa3YpHT0 Report: IAF knocked out Syria radar during Sept. 6 strike
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Tags: Syria, Israel, nuclear, U.S.
The Israel Air Force hit a Syrian radar post near the country's northern border with Turkey on September 6, knocking out Syria's entire radar system as a prelude to striking a suspected nuclear reactor, Aviation Week & Space Technology is reporting in its November 26 edition.
The radar site was hit with a combination of electronic attack and precision bombs to allow the IAF to enter and exit Syrian airspace unobserved, the report said.
Subsequently all of Syria's air-defense radar system went off the air for a period of time that encompassed the raid, U.S. intelligence analysts told Aviation Week
According to the report, the United States provided Israel with information about Syrian air defenses as Israel carried out the strike.
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