With the confirmation that the United States and Israel collaborated on the complex and aggressive computer virus, Stuxnet, that lamed Iran’s nuclear programme, the command and control of war-fighting limned a clear picture, which is coming into sharper focus.
Nontraditional threats, at least the ones that are being paraded publicly, demand a new keenness of response and watchfulness. What is being lent to this quiver—this arsenal, however, sometimes seems like a bag full of equivocations and though not a personal vendetta something to prove, full of hubris and machismo. The legions of drones and agile units at one’s disposal are something outside the purview of checks and balances (only the Congress retaining the power to raise armies but falling below the threshold of expense and native blood) and are not unlike the braggadocio of Iraq and others designed to intimidate their neighbours, regardless of what fangs were behind the threat. America’s behaviour is approaching the limits of might conceded or vested in any democratic government and are a deflection of that same threat, reinterpreted as courtly intrigues (though one may meet their end without dignity or ceremony, carried out from above like a bolt from Zeus) and was former only found in Shakespearian characters and comic book super-villains. 
