Russian troops have entered Ukrain territory, and Russian missile attacks have started. There is now a full-scale war going on in Europe for the first time in the lifetime of most Europeans and Americans. Unless Putin is foolish enough to use military forces against our NATO allies, The United States will not engage Russian Forces in the air, at sea or on the ground. However, along with economic sanctions which are clearly a form of Economic Warfare, the United States should be fully engaged in Cyber and Space Warfare with the Russians.

Russia has claimed that they are not responsible for cyber attacks that have taken place on infrastructure in the United States. This needs to be adjudicated on the cyber battlefield. There should be no human casulties, no force to force combat, and no physical crossing of frontiers. The same goes for Space Warfare.

We should concentrate on two main areas. The Internet and the GPS system, both of which were developed by (who would have guessed?) the US Military for military purposes. That they are used by civilians all over the world does not change the original intent, purpose or technology. These technologies were developed by the United States for use by the military

First off, Russia needs to be removed from the Internet. Period. The Internet works because of thousands of routers that direct and can block packets of infomation that are in the form of electronic packets. The individual packets are addressed to specific IP (Internet Protocol) addresses are are indicated with their origin IP address. Unlike a typical return address for surface or electronic mail, the origin IP address must be accurate. Routers must know where to return replies. There is a worldwide master database which links each IP Address (and there are potentially over 8 billion) to specific countries and specific locales within countries. (A copy of this data is available from and can be downloaded from ip2location) Routers can be programmed to forward or block packets from specific addresses. If all of the Russian based IP Addresses were blocked on the routers within the United States and it's allies... Websites and Internet Users within Russia would be cut off. This would be clearly a defensive move on our part because it would also isolate Russian based hackers (both government, military and civilian). It is completely within our control, and it is similarly completely out of the control of the Russians. They have for year threated to build their own Internet. Please let them.

Secondly, Russia needs to be removed from the GPS System. The world also depends upon our Global Positioning System. We give it away and everyone uses it. I don't know for sure but I would imagine that Russian military aircraft, Russian surface ships and submarines, and Russian ground forces use our GPS navigation. They probably have their own system, but I can't imagine that it is anywhere near as effective as the US system. Russian forces would be scrambling for navigation ability, and civilian air traffic within Russia would be grounded if our GPS system was programmed to send incorrect longitute and latitude triangulation signals back to specific ranges of longitude/latitude. We would of course have to inform the world that we were doing this. Our airlines should not be serving Russia anyway after the invasion, and US Citizens should not travel to Russia unless they intend to stay.

Additionally, any Russian deployed satellites that participate in a Russian satellite positioning system should be jammed, destroyed or otherwise disabled.

If it turns out that we don't have this capability, or we don't have the ability to counter Russian moves in this area, or have any plans to do so would indicate to me that our government and military (through Democratic and Republican control) have been criminally negligent. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.