attacks and basically promising the response could be just like it was if it was a physical attack. pentagon strategy is in its final stages. we're told that it will be completed in two or three weeks. but that is the strategy part. the actual idea of using conventional military force to combat a cyber attack, that's policy. that comes from the white house. take a look at this statement from the white house. this is white house policy that was released about two weeks ago, and it says, "the united states will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country. we reserve the right to use all necessary means -- diplomatic, informational, military, and economic -- in order to defend our nation, allies, partners, and interests. in so doing, we will exhaust all options before military force whenever we can." it also goes on to say that the u.s. wants it to be known that the risk of attacking the united states using cyber attack far