Before The Libyan war, The White House Debated Conducting A Cyber Offensive First

U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes.

While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have been to break through the firewalls of the Libyan government’s computer networks to sever military communications links and prevent the early-warning radars from gathering information and relaying it to missile batteries aiming at NATO warplanes.

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More News On The U.S. Debating Plans To Launch A Cyber Attack Against Gaddafi's Military Before The War Started

US considered cyberwar on Libya: report -- ZDNet
U.S. cyberweapons had been considered to disrupt Gaddafi’s air defenses -- Washington Post
U.S. Reportedly Considered Cyberattack on Gadhafi -- MSNBC
U.S. Considered Hacking Libya’s Air Defense to Disable Radar -- Threat Level
US military debated hacking Libyan air defenses -- The Register
U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare Against Libya -- Huffington Post
US considered cyberwarfare in attacks on Gaddafi's Libya -- Naked Security
U.S. rejected cyberattack on Libya, report says -- CNet

My Comment: A cyber attack was dismissed because of the precedent that it would start. Precedent?!?!?! The Chinese attack American's computer infrastructure everyday .... so much for precedent.