Dear Editor:

The Art of War (Sun Tzu's Military Method) is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from roughly 5th century BC. The Art of War applies to the competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.

Our military leaders should be keeping up with the times and updating the main aims of the book (invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict), and take into account today’s technology, In particular the internet. Our infrastructure is at risk! (victory without battle). The enemy can shut down our power grids, remember how much fun it was last week? They can shut down many water supplies (understanding the physics and psychology of conflict). Many other things can be hacked (cars, ships, planes and trains) anything monitored by the internet.

Here's a possibility: A company monitoring the status of a ship gets hacked, (or said company is owned by the enemy). They could change the direction of the ship and then cut all power to the ship causing it to hit a bridge.

Of course, this is just another wild conspiracy theory.

Joe Scorcia

Boothbay