China conducting 'pre-war recon' on line Misc.6/5/2000; 7:14:02 AM April 11, 2000: China conducting 'pre-war recon' on line: "'China has the biggest [information warfare] programme from the standpoint of being able to attack our infrastructure,' Chinese military specialist William Triplett said during an interview on the CBS News programme 60 Minutes this weekend."

Good plan for China. Not so good for us.

The Pentagon is worried. If an attack were carried out, even just a test attack, it's likely that it would go undetected and might well be attributed to equipment failure or some natural event, US Joint Task Force on Computer Network Defence Director General John Campbell pointed out.

The Clinton Administration, too, is very worried about cyber-warfare, but inexplicably not at all worried about the People's Liberation Army.

I don't know how much the Chinese paid Mr. Clinton to ignore them, no matter what they do, but I sure hope it was a hefty sum. Ironically, for a man so concerned about his legacy in history, he's virtually guaranteed that he will be reviled by future generations for ignoring every threat posed by China, which composes what, 1/5th of the world population? Frankly, we don't need to be helping them militarily.